Called out of darkness

Throughout the Bible, we see God reaching out to those who are poor, orphaned, vulnerable, and given special blessings.

In 1 Peter 2:10, Peter declares this truth to his readers, those who were ‘poor in spirit’: “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.”

This is true for all of us; God has called us from darkness into light, from shame to honour, from estrangement into relationship. May we also, as Peter’s readers did, embrace our new status as God’s own people.