Todays passage is considerably shorter than the chunks of Isaiah that my Bible notes have been getting me to read of the past few weeks. 2 Peter 1:1-2 reads:
Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ,
To those who through the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ have received a faith as precious as ours: Grace and peace be yours in abundance through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.
It made me think, do we always treat our faith as a highly precious thing? It reminds me of The man who found treasure in a field. In this story the man sold everything he had to buy the field, and it says that he had real joy!
Do we always show 'Joy' to those around us that we have a precious faith? Or do we sometimes tone it down for the people around us, so that they don't think we're crazy? Does the image we project of going to church make people want to find out more, or does it make them glad they can stay at home and read the papers? If we are to show the children (and adults) the love of God, we need to understand how precious what we have is, and show that we understand it in the way we talk about our Christian life.
TBB
