In light of the day’s reading, pause to reflect on the specific areas you long to see made new and how Jesus’s ministry calls us to join in that restoration. Let these shape your prayers today.
Scripture tells us that Jesus died and was resurrected. But it also teaches that this is just the beginning. Jesus is the first of what God is doing for the rest of creation, bringing what is dead to new life.
After you’ve read, spend some time in prayer about what it means for us to be raised to life because Jesus was raised first. Comment/share with the community anything that stood out to you or encouraged you from the reading or your time in prayer.
God is not just fixing individuals but the whole world. When Jesus died and rose again, it kickstarted a process of making everything new. It’s not just about personal redemption; it’s about transforming the entire creation into something beautiful and glorious. This highlights how much Jesus’ actions impact not only people but the entire universe.
I love how on the podcast they mentioned that “revive us again” implies at least 3 times..the first time that we were like dead in our spirit then brought to life and then died again and then revived and the like dead again and then asking to be revived again…I feel like that’s such a good picture of how intimately involved we need God in our lives as we walk through really hard things and places and times in our relationship with Him and yet He will revive use even again, and again, and on and on..Everytime! ❤️ He is faithful. I’m so grateful that our God is like that! Ready willing and able ❤️
I love 1 Peter reading, even to verse 12. This is our Kindgom of Heaven Hope. Our hope for now in the brokenness is that our inheritance is “imperishable, undefiled, and unfading”. We WILL be made this one day and we are being refined now.
It’s challenging to imagine this being only the beginning because we have no framework beyond our fsith for what’s to come. I like @katie b’s analogy about her perspective on a rental house vs a permanent home. And also think that just as children enter the world, mature and learn more, so too we can grow in learning about God and what’s to come. The challenges of this life are often so consuming that we don’t have much capacity for preparing for what’s to come.
Our citizenship is in Heaven! Not earth!amen
Jesus Christ my living hope! Amen
Jesus as always is showing us how it is done. He is our teacher. God raised Him to show us the truth of what is to come in the new heaven and earth. God showed us that He can and will do the impossible to fulfill prophecies and establish Jesus as our Savior. That even after taking on the immense weight of our sins, Jesus still came back to spread the good news of faith in God. To tell us that He could carry our burden and wipe us clean if we believe and hold on to our faith.
According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,