various verses

I started to write this blog quite a while ago because I just wanted to share what I was reading each day in the Bible.

I don't try to be profound or wise – the thought of me trying to be either is pretty hilarious!

I've just found that there is incredible stuff in the Bible – a fact I discovered when I started reading it every day, without fail.

As I've said many times before, if any of us wants to know what God wants from us, or if we want to know what God wants us to be or do, if we read the Bible every day without fail, we'll know all those things.

A word of caution – if you read the Bible every day, without fail, God will mess with you – & He will start in the places you least want Him to shine His light of truth upon.

Anyway, I started reading in 1 Peter 1 this morning.

Here's some verses from that chapter that I have underlined in my Bible...

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.

4 For God has reserved a priceless inheritance for His children;

an inheritance that is kept in heaven for you,

pure and undefiled,

beyond the reach of change and decay.

  6 So be truly glad.

There is wonderful joy ahead,

even though you have to endure many trials for a little while.

7 These trials will show that your faith is genuine.

It is being tested as fire tests and purifies gold;

though your faith is far more precious than mere gold.

So when your faith remains strong through many trials,

it will bring you much praise and glory and honor on the day when Jesus Christ is revealed to the whole world.

13a So think clearly and exercise self-control.

14 Obey God because you are His children.

Don't slip back into your old ways of living to satisfy your own desires.

You didn't know any better then.

15 But now you must be holy in everything you do,

just as God who chose you is holy.

  17 And remember that the heavenly Father to whom you pray has no favorites.

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."

 22b See to it that you really do love each other deeply with all your hearts.

  

23 For you have been born again,

but not to a life that will quickly end.

Your new life will last forever

because it comes from the eternal, living word of God.