Devotional

1 Peter 2:18-24

“¹⁸Servants, be submissive to your masters with all respect, not only to those who are good and gentle, but also those who are unreasonable.

   ¹⁹For this finds favor, if for the sake of a conscience toward God a person bears up under sorrows when suffering unjustly.

  ²⁰For what credit is there if, when you sin and are harshly treated, you endure it with patience? But if when you do what is right and suffer for it you patiently endure it, this finds favor with God.

  ²¹For you have been called for this purpose, since Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example for you to follow in His steps,

   ²²WHO COMMITTED NO SIN, NOR WAS ANY DECIET FOUND IN HIS MOUTH;

  ²³ and while being reviled, He did not revile in return, while suffering, He uttered no threats, but kept entrusting Himself to Him who judges righteously;”

In Review:

  ²¹For you have been called for this purpose, since Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example for you to follow in His steps,

            What purpose have we been called for? Suffering. And what are His steps that we need to follow in? Well let’s read on to see.

²²WHO COMMITTED NO SIN, NOR WAS ANY DECIET FOUND IN HIS MOUTH;

  ²³ and while being reviled, He did not revile in return, while suffering, He uttered no threats, but kept entrusting Himself to Him who judges righteously;”

            This is the example (steps) that Jesus left for us to follow in. He was found spotless, utterly and completely pure. Being reviled in a worse way than we have ever experianced, and yet not lashing back. This was his response:

“… but [He] kept entrusting Himself to Him who judges righteously;”

            Jesus entrusted Himself to God, being aware that suffering was the reason He was there and accepting it. He simply entrusted Himself into His Father’s care, knowing that God will judge righteously. To quote a wise woman from our church, “When you’re where God wants you, He’s obligated to take care of you!” While we may not see God’s “care” as ideal, He knows what’s going on. Trust yourselves to Him while in tight and uncomfortable situations, simply trust, for “this finds favor with God.”  And if you think about it, that’s all that really matters.

~Annie