My prayer for you for today is that you will know God has
no favourites and that He paid a ransom for you far greater than silver and
gold, in Jesus name.
1
Peter 1:17-20
And
remember that the heavenly Father to whom you pray has no favourites. He will
judge or reward you according to what you do. So you must live in reverent fear
of Him during your time as "foreigners in the land." For you
know that God paid a ransom to save you from the empty life you inherited from
your ancestors. And the ransom He paid was not mere gold or silver. It was
the precious blood of Christ, the sinless, spotless Lamb of God. God chose
Him as your ransom long before the world began, but He has now revealed Him to
you in these last days
Foreigners - And
remember that the heavenly Father to whom you pray has no favourites. What an
awesome statement and such an important thing to remember: God loves equally! I
think that it is a difficult concept for us to grasp being emotional beings. We
are easily influenced by our personal feelings and we can easily create
favourites. God is not like that, He has no favourites and if this is how God
loves then I think we should learn from this when we look at the people around
us. God loves each one with the same amount of love and that is why He paid
such a high price to save us from our empty lives. Peter then goes and adds a
very important statement: So you must
live in reverent fear of Him during your time as "foreigners in the
land." He reminds us of who God is with the knowledge that He has no
favourites, He will judge you according to what you did, living on this earth.
The power to judge is in God’s hands and this must bring a new and respectful fear
back in us. We must not forget who God is and what He has done for us. I love
how Peter says that we are foreigners of this land. We are citizens of heaven
living as foreigners in this land and this makes us ambassadors of Jesus, so we
must be diplomatic in the way that we live, showing the love of God with every
chance we get.
My dear friend, once again, we must right size God. He is
the creator of the universe! He spoke and the universe was formed. This is the
God that we worship. We have but one life to live for Him and make sure that we
live it correct. Do not waste time on the things of this world, but invest your
time in the things of God.
Have an awesome day dear friend of Jesus
Cheers
