April 30, 2020

“But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;” (1Peter 2:9 NKJV)

God redeemed us from sin and darkness and those who have faith are chosen, royal and holy! They become part of a generation, priesthood and nation. They become God’s own, God’s people.

God has not done this because we are special but in spite of it and God did not do this because we deserve it but despite us not deserving it.

Whenever words like but and therefore are used we should look at what comes before to see what it is there for! The verse before talks about those who will stumble on Jesus because they are disobedient.

We are redeemed or “called out” so we “may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;” We are not just called out from but are called to! To praise God who has saved us from what we deserve and saves us to what we do not deserve.