Day 60 - 1 Peter

Nobody is a nobody in the Kingdom of God.  Nobody.  Nobody, nobody, nobody.  That's a great message.  When we come into relationship with Jesus, we find our truest self.  We find who we were created to be.  We find our purpose.  The Apostle Peter put it this way:

9 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. 10 Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

I LOVE this passage in 1 Peter because it speaks against that.  It's not that we're not a nobody or not just anybody.  It's about saying that we are indeed somebody special.  We were called into the light, out of the darkness, into a new kind of life.  Maybe before we weren't a people, but when you call upon the name of Jesus, you are the people of God. 

I hope you know that.  You are not a nobody.  You are somebody because Christ died for you.  And if you say 'yes' to Jesus, you become a part of the people of God.  You have a new destiny.  You are holy.  And you will never be a nobody again.


When we come to faith in Christ, we are redefined.  The human race is more connected than ever before, but, in many ways, we are more lonely.  It's easy to feel like we are alone.  It's easy to start thinking that we don't matter, that we're just so small.