Category Archives: 1 Peter

Reading:

1 Peter 1:13-25

To be nonconformed, be conformed.

Can you explain that statement?

Maybe this will help:

“As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance” (1 Peter 1:14).

Now get personal with five more questions to chew:

  1. After what or whom do I model my life?
  2. Have I excused or ignored any unholiness in me recently?
  3. How practical and liveable is my hope?
  4. Am I taking an active, purposeful role in the purifying of my soul?
  5. Just how eternal is my day-to-day value system?

Over six years ago I wrote The Christian’s Lively Hope (based in part on 1 Peter 1:13-21).

[The Scriptures say in 1 Peter 1:24 -- All the glory of man]
from 1 Peter 1:24

Reading:
1 Peter 5

What the devil is up to today:

“Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour” (8).

What I am up to today?

“Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world” (9).

What God is up to today!

“But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you” (10).

Unless I remember — continually, consciously — life consists of far more than I can see, I frequently will be lunchmeat for the roaring lion. And not only I, but also those for whom I am responsible — primarily my wife and children and, as patriarch, grandchildren.

Let me also remember — continually, consciously — to live by God’s grace. May I put behind me my careless, self-sufficient, ego-centric ways of dealing with life.

[The Scriptures say in 1 Peter 5:1 -- A partaker of the glory that shall be revealed]
from 1 Peter 5:1

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