1 Peter 1:1-12 | Peace. It's elusive. Especially when life is hard.
We start our study in Peter's letter to a group of believers spread across
areas that make up modern-day Turkey. Six verses into the letter we find
out that these believers are being grieved by various trials. They are
feeling the effects of living for the kingdom in a world that isn't always
friendly to that. Peter writes to them, reminding them of who they are,
where their citizenship ultimately resides, and most of all, he reminds
them again and again how good they have it because of the grace lavished on
them by God.
See, when we have a big view of God's grace, we get a big dose of His
peace. When we remember all we have been given by Him, it puts our hearts
at rest even through grievous trials.
Edmund Clowney calls 1 Peter "a traveler's guide for the Christian
pilgrim." Let's open this guide together to see how we live with a big view
of God's grace and experience a big dose of His peace in this life as we
journey toward the life to come