Focus

Relax and clear your head. Listen for the voice of God. What is God saying to you today?

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Read

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Reflect

In the first chapter of 1 Peter, he writes we have been born again. We have been baptized into the family of God. Because we have been born again, Peter says, therefore rid yourself of malice, and all guile, insincerity, envy, and all slander. The world and its systems are ruled by prideful passion, manipulation, and power.  But that isn’t the way it is going to be in the life of a Christian or in the Church. No, in the Church we are to be ruled by heavenly virtues. Like a baby craves pure physical milk, so we in the Church crave pure spiritual milk. Pure spiritual milk is the teachings that have been revealed by God through Scripture and handed down through the church over centuries. 

If you find yourself craving the benefits and systems of the world over craving the benefits and pure milk and meat of God’s church, then repent.  The first step in the revival of a church is the revival of the people in it. The first step of a revival of a human heart is repentance.  Through repentance, God sends the Spirit to strengthen our feeble hearts, minds, and hands.  It is only through a supernatural intervention that we are born again and that only happens when we repent and turn our hearts and minds toward God.  Repentance is how we turn from the world and as Peter says in verse 4, “Come to him, a living stone, though rejected by mortals yet chosen and precious in God’s sight.”

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Pray

Give us a heart of repentance, O God. Let us begin changing things, by changing ourselves first. Amen