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Are You Floating or Fighting?
We either stop floating along with the crowd that lives for the weekend sports, parties, and fun, or live every day as sacred for Christ, and suffer. Or we just float along with the world as believers and enjoy, as much as we can, the best of both worlds.
Are you floating along in the river of materialism? Or are you fighting against its control of your heart, mind, and will? That is the proof of who we serve. We try to stay focused on the Lord, especially on Sundays, but so much of our life is consumed with things, activities, and pursuits, that it is tough to focus on God. Jesus said how hard it is to follow His path. Peter agrees:
Godly Living is a Struggle
As we saw last time in 1 Peter 2-4, they lived in the center of all that was Rome. The Empire’s greatness was clearly seen in the monumental temples (many with rows of 10-story-high columns), sprawling bath complexes (some that could hold three thousand bathers at once), crowded athletic stadiums, acoustically perfect theaters, and the bustling marketplaces of Roman provincial Asia.
We can see that very little has changed from Peter’s Day to ours; and God’s Word speaks so clearly to our lives as it did to theirs, twenty centuries ago. That is the power of the supra-cultural, timelessness of the Scriptures.
So, what were Peter’s lessons to them and to us, by the power of the Spirit of God’s inspired Word? Peter reminds them and us that all of our homes, cars, collections, gadgets, trophies, treasures, investments, and anything else material in our lives face a future, fiery destruction by God Himself.
WHEN IT FEELS LIKE THE END OF THE WORLD IS NEAR
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