"CALLED YOU OUT!"

1 Peter 2:9-10                       (ESV)

"9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for HIS own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of HIM WHO "CALLED YOU OUT" OF DARKNESS into HIS marvelous light.

10 Once you were not a people, but now you are GOD'S people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy." 

Words can carry many different meanings, mainly according to the way they are used in a sentence.   When someone has "CALLED YOU OUT" it can mean you have been selected to participate in the armed forces, for example.  Unfortunately and more probable for me, it could mean that someone has "CALLED ME OUT" because of some injustice I have performed against a people or person!  

But the words used above by Peter is totally a good thing, in that GOD has "CALLED YOU OUT" into HIS marvelous light!  ALMIGHTY GOD, our CREATOR, has "CALLED YOU OUT" for a purpose, but also to be different!  2 Corinthians 6:17 says "Therefore go out from their midst, and BE SEPARATE from them, says the LORD, and touch no unclean thing; then I will welcome you."  It is really easy to focus on the things we have to give up in being a Believer, but very few people celebrate the fact the CREATOR has "CALLED YOU OUT" to honor and worship HIM!

GOD doesn't require a tremendous following.   As a matter of fact, HE usually CHOOSES a select few to accomplish the things HE has Planned.  Gideon began with over 30,000 men, but GOD dwindled that to only 300!  In Judges 7:7 GOD said "..."With the 300 men who lapped I will save you and give the Midianites into your hand, and let all the others go every man to his home."   When GOD intervenes HE doesn't require a majority of support, only a few dedicated Believers!!!

It is truly a blessing and an honor for the CREATOR and sustainer of life to have "CALLED YOU OUT" of darkness into HIS marvelous light!  Your assignment may not be glamorous or glitzy to others, but when you fulfill what GOD has purposed you for, then nothing can be more satisfying!  No one can substitute knowing that you are doing what GOD ALMIGHTY has "CALLED YOU OUT" to accomplish!!!