Today's Meditation
Read 1 Peter 1:13-25
13Therefore prepare your minds for action; discipline yourselves; set all your hope on the grace that Jesus Christ will bring you when he is revealed. 14Like obedient children, do not be conformed to the desires that you formerly had in ignorance. 15Instead, as he who called you is holy, be holy yourselves in all your conduct; 16for it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.” 17If you invoke as Father the one who judges all people impartially according to their deeds, live in reverent fear during the time of your exile. 18You know that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold, 19but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without defect or blemish. 20He was destined before the foundation of the world, but was revealed at the end of the ages for your sake. 21Through him you have come to trust in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are set on God. 22Now that you have purified your souls by your obedience to the truth so that you have genuine mutual love, love one another deeply from the heart. 23You have been born anew, not of perishable but of imperishable seed, through the living and enduring word of God.
24For “All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls, 25but the word of the Lord endures forever.” That word is the good news that was announced to you.
I think this is an excellent time for us to prepare our minds for action, to discipline ourselves, and to set our hope on the grace that Jesus Christ brings us.
We talked quite a lot already about hope over the last couple of weeks, but not so much about the first two. While we go about our daily activities during our regular lives, those activities often dictate our discipline. We have a schedule that must be fulfilled. Often times, we didn't necessarily choose that schedule, those activities and all that goes with them. We simply follow along. We don't manage them, they manage us.
But now is a perfect time to find your own rhythm, your own disciplines, your own schedule. What do you want to do? What activities have you been a part of that you'd really like to let go of when we are no longer in quarantine time? What priorities have you really missed and want to make more room for in you life? This is an excellent time to rearrange your life...what it might look like post COVID-19.
Prepare to ease your way into that new reality. What action steps will you take? Don't let it just be a mind game and think how life could be different. Think more clearly about what actual steps you will need to do, in order for that to happen and then do them at the appropriate time.
May God's wonderfully powerful Good News in Jesus Christ, by God's mercy and grace - that we are made new every morning - wake you to your new creation.
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