Tag: our identity

“Now if you will carefully listen to me and keep my covenant, you will be my own possession out of all the peoples, although the whole earth is mine, and you will be my kingdom of priests and my holy nation.”

These are the words that you are to say to the Israelites. (Exodus 19:5-6)

Amazing words, aren’t they?

But over a thousand years later, Peter took God’s words to the Israelites and applied them to us.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his possession, so that you may proclaim the praises, of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. (1 Peter 2:9-10)

Let us always remember who we are.

We are God’s chosen, beloved people.

But not only that, we are priests of the great King, called to proclaim his praises.

Not just so that God is blessed. But so that those around us might hear our story and that they too may come out of darkness into his marvelous light.

So I say it again: “Remember who you are.”