Chosen

"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." (1Peter 2.9)
If we are honest, most of us live lives that are pretty routine. Our "daily grind" makes many days seem the same, one running into the other, none distinguishing themselves too much. All this makes us feel very ordinary.
Into our routine existence, God speaks the words above. We are anything but ordinary! Out of this monotonous world, you have been chosen! Chosen to by the Lord Almighty, called out of the faceless mass of people to be royal priests (handling holy things like the Word of God, forgiveness, reconciliation, the grace of God), a holy nation (bound together not by earthly political boundaries, but bound across space and time, every nation, tribe, and race in the blood of Christ), belonging to God (therefore loved by Him, treasured by Him, regarded not as ordinary, but His special beloved).
Why all this attention and chosen-ness? So that we may "declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light." We are special because God has chosen us and called us to declare his praise wherever we are.
REMEMBER TODAY THAT YOU ARE CHOSEN BY GOD AND YOU ARE SPECIAL!!!