“But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.”
1 Peter 2:9
These New Testament words of Peter flesh out the Old Testament words of God from Leviticus 20:26: “You are to be holy to me, because I, the LORD, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be my own.” God’s name will remain holy and will be treated as holy in all the earth. But how does He accomplish that? The answer is through us, His holy people.
You may be thinking, “Me, holy? I’m anything but holy!” But throughout the Bible, God says over and over again, “I am a holy God, you will be my people, and so you will be holy, too.”
As a prisoner, how do you think you can make God’s name holy where you are? Maybe it’s in the way you love your fellow inmates (see Mark 12:31) or by the way you treat the guards (see Matthew 5:44). Is it in the way you conduct yourself around the unbelievers you live with (see Matthew 5:16)? No matter where God has placed you right now—inside of prison walls or out—He has called you to be holy so that you might make His name famous. What a privilege to be used by God in this way!
You may be thinking, “Me, holy? I’m anything but holy!” But throughout the Bible, God says over and over again, “I am a holy God, you will be my people, and so you will be holy, too.”
As a prisoner, how do you think you can make God’s name holy where you are? Maybe it’s in the way you love your fellow inmates (see Mark 12:31) or by the way you treat the guards (see Matthew 5:44). Is it in the way you conduct yourself around the unbelievers you live with (see Matthew 5:16)? No matter where God has placed you right now—inside of prison walls or out—He has called you to be holy so that you might make His name famous. What a privilege to be used by God in this way!
Scripture Focus
Matthew 6:9-13
Insight
God uses His broken, sin-tainted people to hallow His perfect, holy name. Isn’t that amazing?
Bible In A Year
- Exodus 37-38
- Psalm 44
- Luke 8
