the Third Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 5 of 5
1 Peter 1:13-25
The truth which the apostle has just presented concerns and affects us. It is that girdle which strengthens our understanding and controls our thinking (v. 13; Ephesians 6:14). It is also the truth which we have to obey (v. 22). We who previously walked amongst the "children of disobedience" (Colossians 3:6-7) have become "obedient children" (v. 14). That obedience is not only to but of Jesus Christ (v. 2), i.e. like His obedience, motivated by love for the Father (John 8:29; John 14:31). Moreover everything here is in contrast with the Old Testament. Neither money, gold, nor anything else can redeem us (Exodus 30:11-16; Numbers 31:50) but only the precious blood of Christ. Unlike the Israelite, natural birth does not qualify us to enter into the rights and privileges of the people of God. No one should consider themselves a child of God because they have Christian parents! We are born again by the Word which is incorruptible, living and abiding. The holiness which is required of us in our conduct answers to this new nature; we call upon the holy God as our Father (vv. 15-17). Holiness is also the consequence of the great value which God attaches to the sacrifice of the perfect Lamb.
