When we truly look at the Christ, it is truly amazing what we can see.
How often do we say, “Patience is a virtue,” yet fail in showing patience? Today’s text is rich in providing instruction for how to grow in patience toward people, circumstances, ourselves, and especially, the Lord.
When life comes at us in both difficult and great ways, what qualities do we need to possess to live as God would have us live?
What do I have to offer, and what can God accomplish through someone like me?
There are two calls that come to everyone. We each will make a choice.
The apostle Peter quotes a passage from Psalm 34, a psalm of David, to provide us the way to loving life and seeing good days, complete with a blessing and a warning we must not ignore.
We must be concerned about our physical clothing, but we must also be concerned about our spiritual clothing to show whose we are.
As Christians, we strive daily to “walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which we have been called,” as Paul urged the church at Ephesus to do 2,000 years ago. Satan works hard every day to prevent man from accepting salvation through Jesus, showing God’s love in our actions, or spreading God’s love…