INSIDE AND OUT

You are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. 1 Peter 2:9

We are a chosen people and a royal priesthood, set apart to God.
That is a wonderful truth. But we must never let the joy of our intimacy with God exclude us from interaction with the world.
Why are we set aside to God? Peter goes on to say, ‘that you
may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light’ (1 Peter 2:9).

There is an ‘in and out’ dimension to our relationship with Christ.
 *We come in for worship, out for witness; in to meditate, out to minister; in for fellowship, out for faithfulness.* If we focus only on
coming ‘in,’ we will become stale. If we focus only on going ‘out,’ we will exhaust our resources. We are first in union with Christ, and we are then to witness to the world, but these two aspects belong to one condition.

If we do not go out to declare Him, we will go out to criticize and judge the world. It is sad that is how some people see the Church. It was never how people saw Jesus, who stated, ‘I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world’ (John 12:47),
 *and that is the business we are about.*

We come into our union with Christ, to be equipped to go out into the world.

Do you have prejudices that need to be brought to God?

PRAYER: Heavenly Father, I humbly ask for grace to imitate Jesus in respect to His relationship with you and His assignment on earth.....In Jesus' name I pray....Amen

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