Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice, and all guile, insincerity, envy, and all slander. (1 Peter 2:1)
Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could simply say: Today's the day. Today's the day when I am no longer mean or angry or jealous or vengeful or full of gossip. Today's the day when my words will no longer hurt people, and I will be able to forgive as soon as I'm injured. Today's the day I rid myself of all that gunk.
I do believe most of us long for this. But, how do we achieve it?
Come to him, a living stone, though rejected by mortals yet chosen and precious in God's sight, and like living stones, let yourselves be built into a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. (1 Peter 2:4-5)
We are to come to Jesus. Come to Jesus and witness what it is to truly live as a human, as God planned and designed. Come to Jesus and let go of those parts of us that keep us from living as God's child---willingly sacrifice those broken pieces of ourselves so that we can be made holy....a holy priesthood. This means we must come, we must learn, we must be willing to be transformed, we must let go, we must lean into the power of Christ given to us through the Holy Spirit. We must be willing to be made new. For we are more than random individuals living out our days on this earth.
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's own people, in order that you may proclaim the mighty acts of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. 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.
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