TITLE: No Greater Joy!
SCRIPTURE: 1 Peter 1:8-9
Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, for you are receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls.
OBSERVATION: Peter was encouraging the many Christians peppered throughout Asia Minor of the importance of their faith in God. Like a wind that we cannot see yet experience its results as it causes the leaves of a tree to flutter and fall, so is our God. Though we cannot see God, Peter reminds his readers that our faith, love, and belief in him, carry us through the desert places of our life. Through our faith we are given an ‘inexpressible and glorious joy’, the joy of knowing that we will be in our Lord’s presence soon.
APPLICATION: Many Christians today want to experience that instant joy in their lives, that joy that comes from God. But it doesn’t occur randomly or without cause. As Christians we need to work out our faith, working on knowing our Lord and experiencing him in our lives. Only than can we grow to love and believe in him. Finally as we mature in our love and belief in God, we begin to experience that inexpressible joy; that realization that we are his children, to be in his presence forever.
PRAYER: Dear Lord, thank you for your gift of faith, which has become a stepping stone that I can use to come to know, love, and believe in you. Thank you for your inexpressible gift of everlasting life and the joy that accompanies that knowledge that I will be with you in your Kingdom for eternity.
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