1Peter2:4-12 calls us out of “the crowd” to be different and live different from “the crowd” because we are “chosen and precious...being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood...you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him(Jesus) who called you out of the darkness into his wonderful light .Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy....I urge you, as aliens & strangers in the world, to abstain from the passions of the flesh(passions of the world) which war against your soul. Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God in the day he visits us.” I have read this many times, & even memorized it...but during my days the TRUTHS of this passage seem to pass in and out of my ears without becoming an integral part of how I act, talk, love, live, respond, etc.! Letting this just pass in and out of my ears and not doing much with it in my life on a daily regular basis stifles my “becoming” what I am called to be as a part of a holy priesthood/ambassador for Christ(2Corinthians5:20,”Therefore we are ambassadors for Christ,God making His appeal through us...”). When our lives act,talk,love,live,respond, like the world...we are definitely NOT becoming what we have been called out & chosen to be. We may “do” a lot of Christian “stuff” and participate in Bible Studies,& Church Programs, but unless we are becoming what James1:22-25 says(“Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror,and after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it—not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it—they will be blessed in what they do.”),we are really not changing much from the way we were before coming to Christ. If we participate in a lot of “GOOD STUFF” that is TRUE and RIGHT, & do not weave this “GOOD STUFF” into our life as an integral part of who and what we are becoming...then we are really no different from the world, & we miss having the ETERNAL BLESSINGS in our life that God has called us out of the world to have...what we do on Sundays and some of the meetings we go to and what we read regularly may be different...,but we will NOT be RIGHT&TRUE effective ambassadors for Christ...and our lives will be littered with many of the same sins and repercussions of sins  that are in the world if we just “do our good thing” on Sundays, during Bible Studies, or times that we volunteer or donate, etc. And instead of us having lives that those around us see something so contrasting with the passions of the world, they will see religious people that go to a different Church on Sunday’s and do different things once in a while, and may even quote scriptures once in a while, but have no evidences of a Miraculous God’s life changing Grace & Mercy in our lives. Our lives will pretty much stay the same as lives living smack dab in the middle of all the passions of the world that once in a while do and say different things, but with no life evidences of being Called by God to be “chosen and precious...to be a royal priesthood, that our lives “may declare “him(Jesus) who called you out of the darkness into his wonderful light”! Dear Holy Spirit, thank You for mercifully speaking to me through Your Word...the TRUTHS of these verses...as reminders of what I need to do in my life so I may “becoming” more and more a doer of Your Word so the way I act,talk,love,live,& respond,may become ways that “declare the praises of him(Jesus) who called “me” out of the darkness into his wonderful light” that You have chosen me to be with Your Help!