My prayer for you for today is that you will steer clear
from worldly desires and desire God’s will, in Jesus name.
1
Peter 2:11-12
Dear
friends, I warn you as "temporary residents and foreigners" to keep
away from worldly desires that wage war against your very souls. Be
careful to live properly among your unbelieving neighbours. Then even if they
accuse you of doing wrong, they will see your honourable behaviour, and they
will give honour to God when He judges the world.
Worldly - keep away
from worldly desires that wage war against your very souls. Once again I love
Peter’s statement calling us "temporary
residents and foreigners", and I thought that we should think about
this some more. I have been a foreigner in a foreign country and I think there
is a little of that in the way we should live our lives here on earth. You see,
while living in another country away from your friends and family, you have
that constant longing to be with them. When we are here on earth I believe that
our hearts should long to be with God. Then obviously there are nice things in
the foreign country and as time goes by these things start to cause conflict
inside you. Just as the things of this world will make you desire them and
these desires causes conflict. It is easy then for the enemy to cause confusion
and worldly things starts to take God’s place in our hearts.
My dear friend, I pray that you will see this world for
what it really is. That you will come to realise your time here is temporary and
that there awaits a great reward in the Lord Jesus. I pray that your hearts
will not be corrupted by worldly desires but instead that your hearts will long
for God as I long for Him every day.
May the Holy Spirit open your eyes and your heart so that
you will look past evil and seek only God’s will.
So
get rid of all evil behaviour. Be done with all deceit, hypocrisy, jealousy,
and all unkind speech. Like newborn babies, you must crave pure spiritual
milk so that you will grow into a full experience of salvation. Cry out for
this nourishment, now that you have had a taste of the Lord's kindness. (Verse 1-3)
Have an awesome day dear friend of Jesus
Cheers
