“Follow In Jesus Steps”

These verses I am about to read focuses on fulfilled prophecies about Jesus Christ. Peter points to his eyewitness experience of the transfiguration as confirmation those prophecies are true. As a result, Peter knows that those prophecies yet to be fulfilled will happen one day. This will also show that Christians, though they are free, know how to make the proper use of their freedom. They respect, love and honor people as true Christians should, and above all they reverence God (15-17). Christian also must be cooperative, whether their masters are kind or harsh (18). Masters may be unreasonable and life may become difficult and painful, but those who follow Jesus must endure their sufferings patiently in righteousness as he did (19-21). Jesus Christ did no wrong, but he had confidence that God would act justly on his behalf. Such confidence enabled him to endure unjust treatment silently. What caused Christ’s suffering, however, was more than the cruelty of his persecutors. It was the sins of Christians, the people who are now asked to suffer for his sake. It was their sins he bore on the cross.Through his death, sin’s power over them is broken. They are cleansed, given new life, and brought under his loving care. To be a shepherd is so good a work, that it is not only a title given to kings and wise men, and souls perfectly purified, but to God the one in authority of all who, as a Shepherd and King, leads according to justice and law, setting over them his right divine essence , “the first begotten Son”, who has taken the care of this holy flock, as does the deputy of a great king.”

1 Peter 2:16-25
As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God. Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king. Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward {Dificult to deal with}. For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully. For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God. For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps: Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judges righteously: Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed. For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.
{Lets Pray}
Father God, I thank You and praise You for the encouraged Scriptures and all the truth they consist of. I believing that when there is a passage I find difficult or a concept I do not understand, that You would open up my understanding and reveal its meaning so I may grow in grace and in a knowledge of the Lord Jesus. I thank You and praise You that our salvation does not depend on our ancestry, parents, or position. It isn’t based on our education, talents , or nationality. I thank You and praise You for all that Jesus endured in His humanity so that He could become the sacrifice for my sin. I thank You and praise You that in Your grace You sent Your only begotten Son to live and die, so that I may die to this old life,” self” and be raised into newness of life by faith in Jesus. I thank You and praise You that I have freedom in Christ as I walk on the right path. Help me to stay on it and shine the light of Christ to others. I thank You, praise You and give You all the glory in Jesus Precious Name Amen.