Brothers and Sisters 😊
📖 In First Peter chapter 2 today we see numerous and glorious INDICATIVE & IMPERATIVE Gospel truths, stemming from our grace-given identities in Christ…
INDICATIVES: (who we are)
“You yourselves are living stones being built up as a spiritual house, chosen and very precious in the sight of God…a royal priesthood, a holy nation, and a people for God’s own possession by His great mercy” (vs 5,9,10).
IMPERATIVES: (our manner of life)
“Likewise put away all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, & slander…and abstain from the passions of the flesh which wage war against your soul. Conduct yourselves honorably so that others may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation” (vs 1,11,12).
🙏 Heavenly Father I confess to you the many times I have stumbled and disobeyed your Word, failing to answer your IMPERATIVE call – Please help us all to live and act in accordance with who you have made us to be (blessed & favored children of the Most High God), and make it our true aim to love others as we have been loved, honoring you in all things.
🙏 Lord Jesus we praise you today for calling us out of darkness and into your marvelous light, immersing us in the permanently INDICATIVE truth – “That all who put their trust in you will never be put to shame”…
✝️ “Jesus Christ committed no sin, neither was there deceit found in His mouth…He bore our sins in His body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By His wounds we have been healed, for we were straying like sheep, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of our souls.”
1 Pet 2:22-25
Grace and Gratitude 