Meditate On Your Conversations of the Last Several Days

August 20, 2015

Meditate On Your Conversations of the Last Several Days

“And so, dear friends, while you are waiting for these things to happen, make every effort to be found living peaceful lives that are pure and blameless in his sight.”

2 Peter 3:14

Peter’s counsel quoted above follows his affirmation: “But we are looking forward to the new heavens and new earth he has promised, a world filled with God’s righteousness” (2 Peter 3:13). What would it look like in your life if you were to truly live in anticipation of the Second Coming of Christ to establish his Kingdom on earth?

First, we want to remember that Peter’s call to a pure and blameless life is not a call to works righteousness. The Apostle Paul affirms that our right standing with God is the work of God in Christ, not our own self efforts: “God has united you with Christ Jesus. For our benefit God made him to be wisdom itself. Christ made us right with God; he made us pure and holy, and he freed us from sin. Therefore, as the Scriptures say, “If you want to boast, boast only about the Lord”” (1 Corinthians 1:30-31).

I believe Peter’s call to live pure and blameless lives is a call to make the life in Christ your way of life. As followers of Jesus, one of our core understandings is that the world has told us a pack of lies about who we are, who God is and who are neighbors are. The corresponding understanding is that God in Christ Jesus is telling us the truth. Living the Christ-life is a matter of making choices. Do we follow the teachings, the norms and values of the world’s culture, or do we follow the teachings of Jesus and the leading of the Holy Spirit?

Take time to meditate on your conversations of the last several days. As you have expressed your opinions, your observations on the issues of the day and on the concerns affecting your life, are your opinions and observations more aligned with the prevailing sentiment of the world culture, or are they aligned with Jesus?

We need to ever keep before us the counsel of the Apostle Paul:

“Summing it all up, friends, I’d say you’ll do best by filling your minds and meditating on things true, noble, reputable, authentic, compelling, gracious—the best, not the worst; the beautiful, not the ugly; things to praise, not things to curse”

Philippians 4:8 MSG

Sē’lah

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(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

These meditations are written by Alex M. Knight as he seeks the life in Christ as his way of life.  The meditations are published on the BLOG, http://seekingthelifeinchrist.blogspot.com/ and they are also distributed on the Constant Contact email server. You may subscribe to this email service by sending an email to: amkrom812@gmail.com. The BLOG is also available on Amazon Kindle, by subscription.

Publications by Alex M. Knight:

·        Seeking the Life in Christ, Meditations on the New Testament and Psalms has been published and is now available at Amazon.com in paperback and Kindle.

·        The second edition of  First Think – Then Pray is available on Amazon Kindle.

·        Meditations on The Story of My Life as told by Jesus Christ has been released as an e-book on Amazon Kindle.

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