It’s for you to enjoy and to share

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Good morning everyone,
 
Our theme for this month: “Live like it’s true”
 
Our Bible verse for today: “May grace and peace be multiplied to you through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.” 2 Peter 1:2 (CSB)
 
Our thought for today: “It’s for you to enjoy and to share”
 
In his great devotional book, “A Year of Slowing Down: Daily Devotions for Unhurried Living,” Alan Fadling made a statement that caught my attention. He wrote that, “This abundance (of the grace of God in our lives) is not just for our own benefit but also for the sake of others.”
 
2 Peter 1:2 is just one of several verses in the New Testament letters that include a prayer for the readers to experience God’s grace and peace in abundance. Paul was fond of using the phrase as well. It’s a kind and beautiful prayer to pray for someone, and we all certainly do need a better appreciation of the abundance of God’s grace and peace.
 
But getting back to that statement from Alan Fadling – such a blessing upon us is not just for our own benefit, it is also for the benefit of all those who will encounter us today. Peter continues his teaching by telling us what we should do with our experience of God’s abundant grace and peace in our own lives:
 
“For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with goodness, goodness with knowledge, knowledge with self-control, self-control with endurance, endurance with godliness, godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.” (2 Peter 1:5-7)  
 
What Peter is saying is that when your life is suffused with the grace and peace of God, that grace and peace will radiate from you and impact those around you. Others will be blessed because you were blessed. Others will experience the grace and peace of God because you did.
 
Does your life reflect the grace and peace of God? It should. I join with Peter this morning in praying for you: “May grace and peace be multiplied to you through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.” Then share that grace and peace with others.
 
God bless,
Pastor Jim
 
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