SPIRITUAL DIARY
Date: 12-15-03
My Worship Time Focus: Christ’s coming was foreknown
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: 1Peter 1:20,21
Message of the verse:
“20 For He was foreknown before
the foundation of the world, but has appeared in these last times for the sake
of you 21 who through Him are believers
in God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and
hope are in God.” (NASB) “20
God chose him for this purpose long before the world began, but now in
these final days, he was sent to the earth for all to see. And he did this for
you. 21
Through Christ you have come to trust in God. And because God raised
Christ from the dead and gave him great glory, your faith and hope can be
placed confidently in God.” (NLT)
Peter continues to address to his
readers on the cost of our salvation and tells them that all of this was planned
in eternity past, even before Adam and Eve sinned in the garden, but it has now
appeared in these last times. (The last
times are from the first coming of Christ to the second coming of Christ.) It is Jesus Christ who has appeared and it is
He who has made possible this salvation.
Peter tells his readers that this was done for you. In verse 21 Peter goes on to tell his readers
that they are believer in God through Jesus Christ, and it is God who raised
Jesus Christ from the dead and then He was returned to His rightful seat at the
right hand of God who gave Him glory for what He had accomplished. While upon the earth the glory of Jesus
Christ was hidden, but when He took Peter, James, and John up on the mountain
His glory was revealed. When Jesus was
praying as recorded in John 17, He prays that the glory He had before He came
to earth would be mad manifest when He returned to His Father. Peter concludes verse 21 by writing about how
the believer’s hope should be in God because of this great salvation given to
them through Christ, whom had been raised from the dead.
Spiritual meaning for
my life today: I would like to say that Jesus Christ did not
have to come to earth and suffer and die for me or for anyone else, but that it
was because of His love for us that He did it.
I know that one of the problems that sin cause in my life is that of
being selfish, and wanting things my way, and also thinking that because of
being human that I have rights and privileges.
This is not true, for it is only because of God grace, mercy, and love
that I have been born-again, and now have a new nature which always wants to do
right, but I still have that old nature that never wants to do anything right.
The Word
of God did bring refreshment to my heart today as I read it, and it also has
brought conviction as I thought about it today.
My Steps of Faith Today: I want to have a
more conscience effort in worshiping the Lord each day. Trust the Lord to show me more of Himself in
the Scriptures so that I will know Him better.
Trust the Lord to bring conviction and salvation to Valerie and her
husband Mike.
Memory
verse for the week: 1John 1:9
9.
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins,
and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
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