Grace – The Divine Life Expressed in Our Living (2)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Bible Verses~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1Pet 2:19 For this is grace, if anyone, because of a
consciousness of God, bears sorrows by suffering unjustly.
20 For what glory is it if, while sinning and being
buffeted, you endure? But if, while doing good and suffering,
you endure, this is grace with God.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Words of Ministry~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
(Part 2 of 2)
These verses speak about our behavior in our daily life as
Christians. The Christian life is a matter of behavior.
Suppose we did not have the divine life within us. This would
certainly make family life very difficult….The point here is
that if we are those without the divine life, we shall face
problems in our married life, no matter how much we may love
one another. We shall have at least five major problems:
temper, disposition, habit, background, and our way of
understanding things. No matter how much alike a husband and
a wife may be, there will be differences between them. The
husband will have his way of viewing things, and the wife
will have hers. Likewise, the wife will have her habits and
disposition, and the husband will have his.
But suppose a husband and wife both have the divine life and
live according to this life. In spite of the differences in
temper, disposition, habit, background, and understanding,
grace inwardly motivates both the husband and the wife.
Furthermore, this grace is expressed in their living.
This is what Peter means when he says, "This is grace."
Anyone observing a believer living this way in a situation of
suffering and persecution would have to recognize that this
is grace. It is also something worthy of our thanksgiving to
God. It is not a credit to us if we endure buffeting because
we have sinned. But if we do good and yet suffer and endure,
this is grace with God. Such a situation indicates that our
living expresses the working of God's grace within us and
through us. Therefore, concerning this manner of life, Peter
says, "This is grace with God."
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(c) 2007 Living Stream Ministry. Bible verses are taken from
the Recovery Version of the Bible and Words of Ministry, from
Witness Lee, Life-study of First Peter, pp. 174-175. Both are
published by Living Stream Ministry, Anaheim, CA.
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