This is the third installment on 1 Peter.  Specifically verses: 1 Peter 2:9-10.  Here Peter explains our higher calling.

Of the three versions, the words that stand out the most to me are: “speak out for him (God), to tell others of the night-and-day difference he made for you—from nothing to something, from rejected to accepted.”


How glorious would it be that we could all gather for a weekend retreat and meet and talk over hot cocoa and fire toasted marshmallows about what God has done for each one of us.


Or maybe you don’t have that kind of story…  or at least you don’t feel that you do.  If so, know that God loves you and that He wants to spend eternity with you.  In fact, He wants you to be with Him so badly that He sent His only Son to die on your behalf – as a ransom for your sins to set you free to live in His holy presence for all time.  Think of it, no more pain, no more suffering, abiding alongside the creator of heaven and Earth.


I know that I know that I know that Jesus Christ is who He says He is because He has transformed me and my life, and blessed me with so much more than I deserve.  And as my life itself is a witness, I also look to Jesus’ disciples.  They did exactly as I would have done after His death on the cross, they went into hiding – for fear of death.  The Pharisees and leaders at that time had beheaded John, stoned Stephen and hung Jesus on the cross – the disciples knew their fate so they ran and hid.


What overcame their fear of death?  They saw Him, Jesus, in the flesh, risen again.  In fact, they were so convinced that He died and rose again, every single one of them went from being a man in hiding to being one who testified that Christ was exactly who He said He was – the son of God.  They testified to the death.  Beaten, stoned, boiled in oil, hung on a cross upside down and the list goes on.  They got over their fear of death and found… resurrected, new life.


Romans 10:9
If you openly say, “Jesus is Lord” and believe in your heart that God raised him from death, you will be saved.
Romans 10:8-10 (in Context) Romans 10 (Whole Chapter)


Pray, ask Him to come into your heart and take over the throne room of your heart.  Surrender your life to Him and ask Him to show you how to be transformed.  Ask for and receive forgiveness and healing. Pray for mentors, pray for wisdom and discernment in selecting a church, and read His word.  It’s very easy to do what has been done here, you can read different versions and compare for free at Bible Gateway  You can have resurrected, new life.  

Romans 10:11-14

¹⁴ But before people can pray to the Lord for help, they must believe in him. 


I asked the Lord to take over my life and then I asked Him to show me how to change.  I didn’t ask just once, I kept asking and diligently seeking Christians and church fellowship, and my life has never been the same.  It’s so much better. I pray He richly blesses you as you seek Him and as He brings “you out of the darkness of sin into his wonderful light.”


In His Grip,


Monica