You are royal priests, a holy nation, God’s very own possession. As a result, you can show others the goodness of God, for he called you out of the darkness into his wonderful light
(1 Peter 2:9).
Imagine you’re at your wedding standing across from the woman you love. The pastor is saying something about forever…rich or poor…better or worse… But if you’re honest, it’s all a blur. Your mind is fixated on the beauty in front of you.
You know you love this woman, and you decided long before this moment that you want to spend your life with her, so whatever you agree to at this point is just confirmation of what you already know in your heart.
The important thing to recognize though, is this ceremony is the moment when you will finally become her husband.
For those of you who have been there, did you have any idea how to be a husband on the day of your wedding? Did you fully understand what you were agreeing to when you made those vows?
Nope. None of us did.
But that didn’t change the fact that you still became a husband the moment you said “I do.” It just means you now get to spend the rest of your life figuring out what being a husband looks like.
That’s the thing about identity. You often become something long before you know how to actually be that something.
You often become something
long before you know how to
actually be that something.
The moment you put your faith in Christ you became a royal priest. You became holy. You are now possessed by God in the same way a husband and wife possess one another.
Do you know how to be a priest? Do you know how to be holy? Probably not completely. But the more you trust that God has already made those descriptors true of you, the more you will learn how to live according to that truth.
You are already a priest. Now you can learn how to live as one.
You are already holy. Now you get to learn how to walk in holiness.
You are already God’s possession, and not even death can separate the two of you.
And as a result, “you can show others the goodness of God, for he called you out of the darkness into his wonderful light.”
