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a chosen family

1 Peter 2:9-10 (JDV)

1 Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen family, a royal priesthood, a devoted nation, a people that he has obtained, so that you may proclaim the praises of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
1 Peter 2:10 Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

a chosen family

Those who have rejected Christ (including the Jews) have stumbled over the cornerstone and are not God’s people anymore. But those who have chosen to follow Christ are part of his family, priests of his temple, citizens of his nation, a people that God has obtained. As a believer, you now have a new identity. You have not just chosen God. He has chosen you.