Once you were not a people, 

but now you are God's people; 

you had not received mercy, 

but now you have received mercy.

1 Peter 2:10 CSB

Peter is writing to the church scattered.

And being persecuted.

They had been together.

Their circumstances had been better.

But their circumstances did not make them God's people, and their circumstances were not an accurate indicator of God's mercy.

I often make the same mistake. 

My circumstances, whether good or tough, do not change my position, my place with God, and they don't change His mercy, grace and love towards me.

Or you.

We are God's people.

We have received mercy.

When difficulty, hardship, loss, grief, despair are in our face it's hard to hold this. That's why we need one another, to hold our hope when we cannot, to see our future when we can't, to shoulder our burdens when they just seem too heavy to hold.

We are God's people. 

We.

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