Does God, Play Favorites?

    My wife Priscilla, and I both love our daughter Cassandra, beyond words.My wife and I often play a game with Cassandra. The game is called,  whose girl are you? This question, is usually asked when either Cassandra's mother or I are spoiling her by giving her some thing we know she likes, we then as parents want to know which one of us Cassandra, loves more so we ask her,"Whose girl are you?"Cassandra,  is very smart and she knows what we as parents are trying to do with that loaded question and therefore, when either my wife or I ask her," Whose girl are you?" Cassandra,  always says right away BOTH! "I love you both the same!"
    Sometimes,  I think parents can and often do play favorites in a family,  it's natural to prefer a child that is easy to get along with and doesn't disobey very often as opposed to having a child with a contrary nature one must watch every minute yet parents really should love each child in their family the same but parents are human, and humans aren't  perfect therefore,perfect and equal love for all children is not always a reality.
    I think often Christians,  wonder if God,  plays favorites with his children. I mean, think about it, why do some Christians,  have all the money they could ever need seemingly perfect children and the nicest house on the block, while other Christians, my self included, seem to struggle for everything we need just to get by. Does this seem fair? Does God, play favorites with his children? One might be tempted at times to think so but the answer truly is no.
    There is only one time in the Bible,  when God, in his foreknowledge stated that he loved one person and hated another and this was recorded in Romans, 9:13 the passage reads "Jacob,  have I loved but Esau, have I hated."Why would God, hate Esau but love Jacob even before they were born? The answer? God's foreknowledge God,  knew Esau would see his birthright to his brother Jacob for simple food but what he really did was sell his place in the Davidic line from whence Christ, the Jewish Messiah,  would come this was a personal insult to God even though God,  knew it would turn out this way all along because of his foreknowledge.    Consider now, the story of Job, in the first chapter Job by all accounts is counted by God as a just man Satan says let me at him and God, let Satan, take everything he had including his children and his health the only thing Satan was forbidden by God to take was Job's life.One finds  however, that Job, was faithful  to God,  and as he result the Bible,  says,in Job 42:12-15 that God,  blessed job and restored him and gave him back double everything that had been taken including his children ten were in Heaven and ten new children were born to Job. Thus, one can see God,  doesn't play favorites and is no one's debtor.
    Finally consider the story found in Luke 15:11-32. This is the well known story of the prodigal son after a father divides an older and a younger son's inheritance, the younger son over some time goes out and lives it up and waste all his money and is near to the point of starvation as he heads home to his father. The father over joyed his son was back home safe and sound throws a big welcome home party. The Bible says however in Luke 15:31-32 that the older son who had been faithful and looked after his father's affairs for quite some time felt cheated by the father because he had never received a big party and he was the good son therefore he should have been the favorite right? One might think so but didn't the father divide the inheritance  between the two sons? The father played no favorites here and the order son, should not have obeyed his father just in the hope of achieving favored status over the younger, so too, Christians, should not obey God, merely as a means to obtain his favor Christians should serve God because they love him and mature Christians should realize, that God doesn't play favorites with any of his children. As always, my friends, these thoughts remain, just some words to think on.