Christian
Musicians are Called From Darkness to Light
I Peter 2:9 states, “But
ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar
people; that ye may shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of
darkness into his marvelous light.”
Yesterday we marveled in the thought
that we have been changed from dead stones to living stones by the mercies of
Christ Jesus. Today we are going to
consider five, thoughts found in I peter 2:9.
First, we are a chosen generation; second a royal priesthood; third, a
holy nation; fourth, a peculiar people; fifth, a people called from the
darkness of sin unto the marvelous light of salvation.
It is a marvel to me that I have been
called or chosen by God to music unto Him.
I often wonder why God has chosen me to be a part of His royal
priesthood. Why me? I am small; I do not have perfect pitch or
even excellent relative pitch. I am not
from an ecclesiastical background. I was
raised on an eighty acre farm in eastern Kansas. I was a nobody of
nobody’s. But, praise God he lifted me
out of the deep miry clay of sin. He has
called me to show forth his praises by musicing unto His matchless and
wonderful name.
God has also made it possible for me, a Kansas
farmer, to be a part of His holy nation.
He has also purified my heart by his great power. Thank God that my savior Jesus Christ
suffered without the gates to sanctify me as one of His people (see Hebrews
13:12).
God
has made me a part of his peculiar people.
The Greek word peripoiesis (4047) which was translated as “peculiar”
means a purchased people. I am
peculiarly purchased in that Christ did not purchase me with money but through
his own blood that he shed for my sins on the cross at Calvary. I was such an awful sinner that my changed
life shows forth the praises of God’s wonderful name. He has called me from the awful darkness of
my sinful life, into the wonderful light of his presence.
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