29 September 2006

"But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. "
1 Peter 2:9-10


i read this passage this morning as i was sitting outside starbucks after meeting with matt smith. we've been meeting and it's been good to be challenged by him. the bad part about it is we meet at 6am...yeah. early. so, he had to go to school since he's a teacher and all, and i had about 20 minutes before i had to be at school. i was sitting there outside reading. i've been pretty busy lately, and i haven't had much time to really be with God. it seems like when i do get the chance i'm just not all there. last night i was thinking about it and as i was sitting on my bed i told God how i was feeling and that i needed some help. then, faithful as always, God answered my prayer. he's so good and he'll hear me even if its only for 10 minutes laying on my bed about ready to go to sleep. this morning was good.

anyways...matt was saying that its not about us at all. the good that is in us is just God shining through us. we're just sinners and messed up people who God has chosen to display his glory through. then i read this passage: "...a chosen people...that you might declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light..." i don't know why this stuck out to me so much, but i like it. we were once darkness. we were once messed up and broken, couldn't see because it was too dark around us. we were bumping into things, tripping over stuff, falling into holes that we couldn't see, and we didn't know any better. but, in the darkness we heard a voice. we heard God calling us. i like the word picture. we couldn't see, but we heard a voice and we had to choose whether or not we were going to trust that voice and follow it, or if we would continue to try and find our way on our own. so, if we've chosen to follow that voice, then he's called us into light. we're no longer in the dark. we aren't running into things anymore. we've got this light that shines through us that's guiding us. and its all about that light in us. on our own we don't shine. we don't have any light to give off. but, God has chosen to shine through us, and we only have to let him. as we go to the Source, our light burns brighter and brighter...

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