[Dailydevo] Daily Devotion Tuesday February 14, 2006

[Barry Ludwig]

Daily Devotion Tuesday February 14, 2006

This week's devotions are written by Pastor Dave Hendricks.

 

1 Peter 2:9-10

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's own
people, in order that you may proclaim the mighty acts of him who called you
out of darkness into his marvelous light.  Once you were not a people, but
now you are God's people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have
received mercy.  

 

Thought

Eugene Peterson's The Message interprets a portion of the above verse this
way, "(You are) God's instruments to do his work and speak out for him, to
tell others of the night-and-day difference he made for you - from nothing
to something, from rejected to accepted."

 

James C. Fenhagen once wrote, "Holiness, I believe, involves rediscovering
the moral vision Jesus embodies in a way that invokes in us a sense of
thirst rather than demand."  It is far too easy to live life as if it is all
privilege.  When we think we deserve something or have earned it on our own
then life can easily become a state of gracelessness.  In this state we will
make the assumption that we deserve our social status, economic status and
salvation. In having this assumption it allows us to feel that we have the
right to make demands on the world.  The next logical step is for us to make
demands on the church and God.  

 

A state of grace-fullness realizes what we have is not ours to own.  It is
able to move into a life thirsting to serve and to proclaim the great mercy
we have received from God through Christ.  Grace-fullness is the dawning of
true living. We can find contentment only in our sharing the mercy, light,
and status we have received from God. In this state we thus "thirst" for
ways to never have the fire of service and proclamation quenched from our
lives.

 

What are you thirsting for?

 

Prayer:

Grace-filled God, never allow our thirst to serve you and proclaim your
mighty acts of mercy to be quenched. Thank you for such a thirst.  Amen.

 

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