But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people who are God’s own possession. You have become this people so that you may speak of the wonderful acts of the one who called you out of darkness into his amazing light. Once you weren’t a people, but now you are God’s people. Once you hadn’t received mercy, but now you have received mercy. Dear friends, since you are immigrants and strangers in the world, I urge that you avoid worldly desires that wage war against your lives. Live honorably among the unbelievers. Today, they defame you, as if you were doing evil. But in the day when God visits to judge they will glorify him, because they have observed your honorable deeds. (1 Peter 2:9-12, CEB)
You are:
A chosen race!
A royal priesthood!
A holy nation!
A people who are God’s!
Who were chosen and placed here to speak about God and the wonderful acts of Them who called you out of darkness.
You once were not, but now you are.
You are.
Rest in the assurance that you are God’s own chosen child.
aSacredRebel 