Called to Be Different -- 1 Peter 1:13-25

I have been part of a Christian 12-Step Recovery program for a number of years.  As I learned about recovery and the difference between secular and Christian recovery, I began to grow and to change.  I understand what it means to be changed, to be different than I was a year ago and I have learned that I have responsibilities I did not recognize before.

1 Peter 1:13 "Prepare your minds for action..."  A relationship with Jesus requires that I am prepared everyday to do the next right thing, to take it one day at a time and to let God be God. 

A few verses later: 1 Peter 1:17 "Since you call on a Father who judges each man's work impartially, live your lives as strangers here in reverent fear."  Those two words, reverent fear, struck me.  As one who used to live each day in fear--I had to pause and define referent fear.

The only fear to hang on to is reverent fear.  This fear equates to love and respect with wonder, awe and reverence.  We serve a mighty God who loves us equally and wants each and every one of us to be with Him in eternity.  We are called to live life as a saved sinner showered and washed clean by Jesus' blood and living in abounding grace.


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