1 Peter 1:2 God the Father knew you and chose you long ago, and his Spirit has made you holy. As a result, you have obeyed him and have been cleansed by the blood of Jesus Christ.
May God give you more and more grace and peace. New Living Translation (NLT)
We recently considered how the Apostle Paul told the church in Corinth that the gospel message is of "first importance". In Peter's introduction to his epistle he shows that our standing in Christ, as God's chosen children, and the process of cleansing, obedience and growing , our sanctification are of primary importance.
We've also been considering how this is not of ourselves, it is of God. Here in this verse Peter refers to all three "persons" of the Trinity being involved, working together. We may not even be aware of it at first, but gradually we see that the Godhead, the blessed Trinity has been working out this process in our lives.
Charles Spurgeon in a devotional for today writes. "You remember the day, some of you, when you first learned the doctrines of grace. When we were first converted, we did not know much about them, we did not know whether God had converted us, or we had converted ourselves; but we heard a discourse one day in which some sentences were used, which gave us the clue to the whole system, and we began at once to see how God the Father planned, and God the Son carried out, and God the Holy Spirit applied, and we found ourselves suddenly brought into the midst of a system of truths, which we might perhaps have believed before, but which we could not have clearly stated, and did not understand. Well, the joy of that advance in knowledge was exceeding great."
May we see how God the Father planned, and God the Son carried out, and God the Holy Spirit applied the gospel in our hearts and minds, and may God bring you more grace and peace in doing so.
Blessings,
Mike
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1 Peter 1:1-3
Amplified Bible (AMP)
1 Peter, an apostle (a special messenger) of Jesus Christ, [writing] to the elect exiles of the dispersion scattered (sowed) abroad in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
2 Who were chosen and foreknown by God the Father and consecrated (sanctified, made holy) by the Spirit to be obedient to Jesus Christ (the Messiah) and to be sprinkled with [His] blood: May grace (spiritual blessing) and peace be given you in increasing abundance [that spiritual peace to be [a]realized in and through Christ, [b]freedom from fears, agitating passions, and moral conflicts].
3 Praised (honored, blessed) be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah)! By His boundless mercy we have been born again to an ever-living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
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