What Does God Treasure?
Posted 10-01-2014 at 06:55 AM by snowduck
Deuteronomy 7:6 (NIV) - For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession. - The prophet Moses is generally regarded as the author of the book of Deuteronomy in the old testament of the Bible. Written shortly before his death about 1406 B.C. he summarizes God's laws and reminds the Israelites that they are chosen by God as his treasured possession. The Israelites probably didn't know it, but they were being prepared to teach the world about the coming Messiah, Jesus Christ. I think that is what made the Israelites God's chosen people. Now let's fast-forward about 1,469 years to the new testament of the Bible to 1 Peter 2:9 (NIV) - But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.) - It's possible that Peter was familiar with Deuteronomy and was paraphrasing Moses' words and expanding on them or was writing completely original thoughts. Whatever the reason for the parallels between the two is, it gives me comfort to know that Moses and Peter wrote basically the same thing almost 1500 years apart about people that believe in God. Though there are exceptions the world today seems to be convinced that Christians are about nine bricks short of a load (Matthew 5:11 - “Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me). Christians can regard themselves as special and chosen by God. Not because we have done anything to deserve such treatment, but because God has called us out of darkness by his grace. God is calling to everyone and whoever answers and believes that his son Jesus Christ is the Savior of all is his treasured possession. What About Jesus?
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