12/31/17 FOLLOW IN HIS STEPS
If we follow the directives in this passage in 2018 we will be more than conquerors. It calls for denying self and taking the initiative to follow in the steps of Jesus, which will lead us in the way of righteousness. This is not an easy path, but a path through suffering and rejection. It is the path the Savior trod.
Anyone can do well when life is easy. It takes grace and power from the Holy Spirit to do right when you are being treated wrongly. This path is the path that does not follow or practice sin. Give up sin, that is the call of God. It is possible through the One Who gave up everything for us.
1 Peter 2:17-25
17 Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.
18 Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.
19 For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.
20 For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.
21 For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:
22 Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:
23 Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:
24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
25 For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.
If we follow the directives in this passage in 2018 we will be more than conquerors. It calls for denying self and taking the initiative to follow in the steps of Jesus, which will lead us in the way of righteousness. This is not an easy path, but a path through suffering and rejection. It is the path the Savior trod.
Anyone can do well when life is easy. It takes grace and power from the Holy Spirit to do right when you are being treated wrongly. This path is the path that does not follow or practice sin. Give up sin, that is the call of God. It is possible through the One Who gave up everything for us.
1 Peter 2:17-25
17 Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.
18 Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.
19 For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.
20 For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.
21 For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:
22 Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:
23 Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:
24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
25 For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.
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