Year 6, Day 221: 2 Peter 2

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Discipleship Focus: Challenge

• Challenge: God does not merely wish us to be in relationship with Him as we are.  He challenges us to grow, stretch, and transform as we take on the mantle of being His representatives to this world.

When I read this chapter in 2 Peter, I can’t help but think about challenge.  Truthfully, I can’t help but think about pitfalls, which causes me to think about challenge.  Navigating the world is a bit of a precarious thing.  There are plenty of places where we can get it wrong if we aren’t careful.

The first place that we can get it wrong is with the people around us.  If we are not careful, we can fall in the path of false teachers.  How do we know them?  They are sensual, all about what feels good or feels right.  They are greedy, focused on personal gain and exploitation.

The second place that we can fall is in our own personal ego.  We boast about ourselves.  We promise freedom but we cannot deliver.  We start by following Christ but get so focused on ourselves that we no longer find ourselves following Him.

How can we resist the temptation to fall?  We surely don’t do it on our own strength!  We do it by remembering that it is God who spares us.  It is God who rescues us.  It is God who can bring us out of the time of trial.  It is God who can affirm our character.

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