Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in a YouTube video of song and lyrics from the group Sidewalk Prophets singing … Come To The Table … poignantly singing how, we, as God’s Royal Priesthood have been invited to dine at the table of the King - FOREVER!
God's Special Treasure Chest
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Highlight Verse[s]: 1Peter 2:9 [NKJV] ... 9 But you are not like that, for you are a chosen people. 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.
… Believing and following Christ has brought us from the darkness into the light to become part of God’s family treasure chest.
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Highlight Passage [context]: 1Peter 2:4-10 [NLT] ... USE THIS LINK ...
… God, thru Peter, shows us that we follow King Jesus as Lord have become a royal priesthood.
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Reference Passage : … Deuteronomy 7:6 [NLT] … 6 For you are a holy people, who belong to the Lord your God. Of all the people on earth, the Lord your God has chosen you to be his own special treasure.
… Under the Old Covenant (in the Old Testament), God saw His chosen people, the Israelites, as His “special treasure.” And now, in the New Covenant, fulfilled by Christ, we Christians have become His treasure.
Reference Passage : … John 14:1-3 [NLT] … 1 “Don’t let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, and trust also in me. 2 There is more than enough room in my Father’s home. If this were not so, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you? 3 When everything is ready, I will come and get you, so that you will always be with me where I am.
… Jesus promises His Disciples (and thereby all born-again in Him) that He will bring us to a special eternal home in Heaven.
Reference Passage : … Romans 8:38-39 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Paul shows fellow Christians that NOTHING can separate the Lord’s special priesthood of disciples from the value and love of God.
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, John Blase, uses a word picture of a royal treasure chest to illustrate just how valued God’s chosen are to Him. … The ODB author wrote: Imagine a vast throne room. Seated on the throne is a great king. He’s surrounded by all manner of attendants, each on their best behavior. Now imagine a box that sits at the king’s feet. From time to time the king reaches down and runs his hands through the contents. And what’s in the box? Jewels, gold, and gemstones particular to the king’s tastes. [see photo] This box holds the king’s treasures, a collection that brings him great joy. Can you see that image in your mind’s eye?
And that’s a rather fanciful mental image of just how much God values EVERY ONE of His chosen ones. And we read of that value in the Old Testament (see Deut. 7) and again in the New Testament (see highlight passage), where God showed that each and every true believer in Messiah was part of His eternal treasure chest. And even as Jesus expressed to His Disciples how ALL who followed Him as Lord would be sitting at His eternal table with an everlasting home in Heaven [see linked song].
And as you take in the song and meditate on the Scriptures above, do I sense that my fellow Christian readers here feel the value we have in the Kingdom Family of God? And I pray that we see ourselves as part of His royal treasure chest.
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My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh Abba Father, ... thank You, Lord, ... for adding me, lowly me, to your royal treasure chest.
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My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... I pray, Lord, that all reading here will join me today, to see ourselves as part of God’s Royal Priesthood, sitting at the Lord's table and dining with King Jesus as the Sidewalk Prophets sing in the linked song.
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