“CHOSEN RACE!”

 1 Peter 2:9-12                                      (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.

11 Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to ABSTAIN FROM THE PASSIONS OF THE FLESH, which WAGE WAR AGAINST YOUR SOUL.

12 Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, THEY MAY SEE YOUR GOOD DEEDS and GLORIFY GOD on the day of visitation.”

Why am I CHOSEN by GOD ALMIGHTY when HE has ALL OF CREATION to choose from?  Choosing a servant with no “redeeming characteristics” doesn’t seem like the best Plan for a CREATOR WHO has almost 8 Billion people from which to choose.  But HE could have called ten thousand angels to rescue HIM from the cross of Calvary as well!  GOD doesn’t need a great orator, nor a powerful leader, nor does HE require a wealthy business tycoon to accomplish HIS PLAN.  HE uses those who realize that HE IS GOD, AND WE ARE NOT!!!

HIS PLAN is not always what most people would expect to SEE.  Our finite minds are totally incapable of figuring out THE HOLY GOD and HIS PURPOSE. When GOD’S PLAN and PURPOSE is REVEALED to us so precisely, we KNOW that HE is CALLING US OUT OF DARKNESS AND INTO HIS MARVELOUS LIGHT, and MUST be aware that “the enemy” will do everything within his power to interrupt the PLAN OF GOD.    Satan thought that JESUS was defeated on Calvary, but in three days THE TRUTH was unleashed!  

1 Corinthians 2:9-10 states “But, as it is written, "What no EYE has SEEN, nor EAR HEARD, nor the HEART OF MAN IMAGINED, what GOD has prepared for those who love HIM"- these things GOD has revealed to us through the SPIRIT. For the SPIRIT searches everything, even the depths of GOD.”  

Although I am not the best person, even in my neighborhood, I AM CHOSEN by ALMIGHTY GOD to fulfill HIS PLAN “for such a time as this” (Esther 4:14)!  Deuteronomy 7:7-8 says that because the LORD LOVES YOU is why HE is gracious to HIS CHOSEN!  No, it is NOT because I am worthy, but because I am part of a “CHOSEN RACE” that HE keeps performing the miraculous in my life!