God’s special people

Call to prayer

Title: God’s special people

By: Michael Ntow

Date: 17/05/2022

Ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people. 1 PETER 2:9

The doctrine that Christians are God’s special people is given in a very remarkable way in John 17, but it is taught everywhere throughout the New Testament. It is found, for instance, in that mighty first chapter of the Epistle to the Ephesians, but especially in Paul’s prayer for the church at Ephesus.

He prays that the eyes of their understanding may be enlightened. He wants them to grasp this truth with their minds and with their understanding because it is so vital. He prays that they may know what is the hope of their calling and then, second, what are “the riches of the glory of his inheritance”, God’s inheritance, “in the saints.” I want you to know, he says, and to see yourselves as God’s inheritance. I want you to grasp this idea of God’s special people. It is his prayer, above every- thing else, that these people might know this.

Consider, too, what he wrote to Timothy. Timothy was very troubled and worried about certain things that were happening in some of the churches for which he was responsible, and Paul in effect said, “Timothy, you need not be troubled, ‘The Lord knoweth them that are his.’” God knows His own people, and that means that He not only knows them, but He looks after them, He keeps His eye upon them. Then in Hebrews 2:13 these words are applied to the Lord: “Behold I and the children which God hath given me.” That is how the Lord Jesus Christ refers to Christians and to the members of His church.

Peter also writes on the same theme in his epistle: “Ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people” (1 Peter 2:9), which means a people for God’s special interest and possession. God has chosen and marked out and separated a people for Himself.

A thought to ponder

Christians are a people for God’s special interest and possession.

Prayer point

Let us pray that we will show forth the glory of Him who has chosen us unto the world

God bless us all

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