1 Peter 2:20-21 | Seeing the Rainbow Through the Rain. Coach C reads today’s Family Wins Devotional. Episode 70.
It’s a beautiful day to be a neighbor.
Today’s Family Wins devotional reflects on 1 Peter 2:20-21 — “But if you suffer for doing good and you endure it, this is commendable before God. To this you were called.”
Anyone can attend a concert and enjoy a violinist’s skill. But only another violinist can fully understand the violinist’s suffering: the years of practice, self-denial, and financial hardship it takes to achieve the expertise that others will travel miles to hear. Through the musician’s suffering, others are richly blessed. Peter and the early Christians understood that suffering has a place in life, and J. Hudson Taylor’s insight will help you do the same. It is possible to receive salvation through Christ but still have an imperfect appreciation of the nature and responsibilities of our calling. To what are we called? To do good, to suffer for it, and to take it patiently. None of the proceedings of God are arbitrary. All the acts and all the requirements of perfect wisdom and perfect goodness must of necessity be wise and good. We are called, when we so suffer, to take it patiently, thankfully, and joyfully, because, seen from a right point of view, there is neither ground nor excuse for impatience. On the contrary, there is abundant cause for overflowing thanks and joy. To make the message intelligible, it must be lived. Be glad that you have the opportunity to make the grace of God intelligible to unbelievers. The greater the persecutions, the greater the power of your testimony. As Hudson Taylor makes clear, God has His own reasons in mind when Christians suffer, reasons that will glorify Him even if no one else understands. Your calling is to trust and obey, so that the overflow of your suffering might be sweet music to God. It may just be the melody a fellow sufferer needs to hear.
After you listen, go back and read 1 Peter 2:13-25 for yourself — open your devotional to page 824, pull up the app, or grab your free copy at mindwolves.com/tfw. Let God speak to you directly, in your own time, in your own home.
A godly husband isn’t made in a day. Neither is a godly wife, a godly father, or a godly mother. They’re made in moments like this one — one verse, one choice, one day at a time.
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Grace and peace to you and your home.
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