Respond Like A Bone -Dry Babe ~ 1 Peter Bible Study

Text 1 Peter 1:13-2:3

In this lesson we are asked to study how God wants us to behave. Because of what God has done for us~ we are called to live for Him. Remembering that we are unable to do this in our own strength. God always makes a way for us to do this by giving us grace.

What God has done in us and through us far precedes what we are called to do for Him.

Peter emphasizes the mind, discipline, holiness and love. He encourages us to strengthen our minds. This passage is not difficult to understand but it is difficult to live. I have been walking with Jesus for many years and these heart attitudes are a result of the fruits of the Spirit and not the result of our self-efforts. Some days I do well~ some days not so. But I do try to walk more in the Spirit than in my flesh. When  I walk in the Spirit it shows and when Carrie walks in her flesh it is not such a pretty sight!

Sometimes holiness echos perfection ~of which none of us are able to achieve. Yet ~ we are called to holiness. We are on a journey to holiness that will not be completed until we are in the presence of our Heavenly Father. One day we will all stand before the God who is judge~ according to our works. Even though we are saved by grace we will stand at the bema seat.

Peter encourages us to desire the Word of God as a new born baby desires his mother's milk. If that child is not fed he will not grow.

In reading this passage and studying along I am reminded that God loves me~ when I am good and even when I am bad.  He is good and He is in control of all that happens in my life.  I am so very thankful for my salvation ~ I am humbled that I get to serve the Almighty God with my humble attempts.

1 Peter 1:13-2:3

King James Version (KJV)

 ¹³Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

 ¹⁴As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:

 ¹⁵But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;

 ¹⁶Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.

 ¹⁷And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:

 ¹⁸Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;

 ¹⁹But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:

 ²⁰Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,

 ²¹Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.

 ²²Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:

 ²³Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.

 ²⁴For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:

 ²⁵But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.

1 Peter 2

Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,

 ²As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:

 ³If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.