In a recent edition of Wall Street Journal , however, a Harvard law student did just that. So, while the good ol' professor may have tried to safeguard the dignity and integrity of the janitor as a person, he did so at the tremendous expense of denigrating the janitor's vocation. Scripture knows no sacred-secular distinction. All of life belongs to God. All of life is sacred.
All believers are priests.
As priests, we must always remember that our priesthood, from beginning to end, is rooted and grounded in our Great High Priest whose priesthood was not ordained by man, but rather was ordained by God. Thus, on the basis of His priestly work on our behalf, Christ has bestowed upon us a royal priesthood. This priesthood, however, would be meaningless apart from the fact that God richly bestowed His favor upon us, chose us for Himself, and called us to be His people and His priests. Put simply, we would not be priests were it not for the fact that God chose us to be His priests. That is why most every passage which speaks of us as priests also speaks of us as those who have been called by God, as God's chosen people.