It’s your first glimpse into a new world, a world that is
home for many people but altogether mysterious to you. A far-away feeling is a close companion
much of the time. Are you
lost? Here by mistake? No, you have been brought here by One whom
you love so deeply that you voluntarily become a stranger in order to offer many
estranged loved ones a renewed relationship with the greatest Love of
all. This Love is also a new
world, a mysterious Kingdom, and the King, Himself, has invited us to live
with Him.
"But you are the ones chosen by God, chosen for the high calling of priestly work, chosen to be a holy people, God’s instruments to do his work and speak out for him, to tell others of the night-and-day difference he made for you—from nothing to something, from rejected to accepted.11-12 Friends, this world is not your home, so don’t make yourselves cozy in it. Don’t indulge your ego at the expense of your soul. Live an exemplary life among the natives so that your actions will refute their prejudices. Then they’ll be won over to God’s side and be there to join in the celebration when he arrives."1 Peter 2:9-12 (MSG)
