SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 7/25/2017
11:48 PM
My Worship Time Focus: “Be Hopeful”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference:
1 Pet. 5:10-14
Message of the
verses: “10 After you have suffered
for a little while, the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory
in Christ, will Himself perfect, confirm, strengthen and establish you. 11 To
Him be dominion forever and ever. Amen. 12 Through Silvanus, our faithful
brother (for so I regard him),I have written to you briefly, exhorting and
testifying that this is the true grace of God. Stand firm in it! 13 She who is
in Babylon, chosen together with you, sends you greetings, and so does my son,
Mark. 14 Greet one another with a kiss of love. Peace be to you all who are in
Christ.”
What we have in verses 10-14 are the last verses from
Peter’s first letter. Dr. Wiersbe
entitles this last section “Be Hopeful,” as this is the name of the last main
point in his outline. We will just look
at the introduction to these verses this evening and they there are four
sub-points under this main point. They
are as follows “We have God’s grace,” “We know we are going to glory,” “Our
present suffering is only for a while,” and the last sub-point is “We know that
our trials are building Christian character.”
Dr. Wiersbe writes the following paragraph for his
introductory material for these five verses:
“Peter closed on a positive note and reminded his readers that God knew
what He was doing and was in complete control.
No matter how difficult the fiery trial may become, a Christian always
has hope. Peter gave several reasons for
this hopeful attitude.” The reasons for
this hope are the four sub-points that we have already mentioned.
I mentioned in an earlier SD that I cannot find the last
Spiritual Diaries that go along with this last chapter in 1 Peter and that is
why I am writing them out. The first
chapter or so of 2 Peter is also missing and so once we are done looking at the
end of 1 Peter we will then move onto 2 Peter.
Once all of that is complete then I will go back to what I have been
doing which is putting one older Spiritual Diary on in the morning along with
continue to write Spiritual Diaries for the book of Acts. My plans for the evening devotions is to
begin the book of Ephesians. I have to
say that Ephesians is a very difficult book to study, but we will with the help
of the Spirit of God get through it.
7/26/2017 12:04 AM
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