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.
1 Peter 2:9
Daunters will lie to you. They will say you are a failure, that you aren’t good enough, that you will never do anything great or be anyone special.
Oh, but they are wrong. You are special, you are chosen, you are called, God’s own possession!
So many of us can get lost in the humdrum of daily life, lost in the repetitive tasks of our lives, every day much of the sameness. But you have a much bigger task, to proclaim His praises.
He called us out of darkness into His light, marvelous light!
Isaiah 42:16 says “I will make darkness into light before them and uneven places into plains. These things I have determined to do for them and I will not leave them forsaken.” He has deprived them of the power to harm us, even to the point that the uneven things in our lives will be turned to plains.
Finances can be a constant bumpy rollercoaster ride, our health can shift with our fluctuating hormones, our work stress can vary with deadlines and all the other things that can make our lives an uneven place. A lot of these things aren’t easily smoothed over but what can change is our reaction.
The line in Laura Daigle’s song You say has hit me hard recently – “Am I just the sum of every high and every low?” That is how I have felt my life has been but I don’t want that, I want God to even out the plains.
Can we sing a Hallelujah today for the fact that we are chosen, His own special people and that we can proclaim His praises?
