Living for God

Meditations in the Season of Lent 

April 1, 2022

Living for God

Do it with all the strength and energy that God supplies. Then everything you do will bring glory to God through Jesus Christ. All glory and power to him forever and ever! Amen.

1 Peter 4:11b

Read: 1 Peter 4:1-11

As I read today’s passage, I again (March 23, 2022) thought of the first three of Covey’s Seven Habits: be proactive, with the end in sight, and don’t let the urgent trump the important. (The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen R. Covey)

First, because we are proactive, we won’t spend the rest of our lives chasing our own desires, but we will be anxious to do the will of God. God has given each of us a gift from his great variety of spiritual gifts. Use them well to serve one another. (v. 2,10)

Next, I jump to habit 3 and strive to put first things first as I remember that we will face God, who stands ready to judge everyone, both the living and the dead. (v.5)

Then, in verse 6 I remember to keep the end in sight. Peter affirms that our death is not the end. Through our death, we will live forever with God in the Spirit. Keeping this promise ever before me brings much comfort in times of distress.

My Takeaway: I know it is a most ambitious goal to have as my epitaph, “Everything he did brought glory to God through Jesus Christ.” Nevertheless, I hear God in Christ Jesus calling me to make this my ambition in life. How about you?

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.

 

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