🕃 The Holy Wonderworkers and Unmercenaries Cyrus and John; Venerable Father John Bosco.
Abstention from meat and foods that contain meat.
1 Peter 1:1-2, 10-12; 2:6-10; Mark 12:1-12.
Read 1 Peter 1:1-2, 10-12; 2:6-10
Go back and read that text. Take a deep breath especially at the beginning of the sections starting with “The prophets…” and “But you are a chosen race…”
Did you do it? Are you a little breathless? Perhaps Peter is so passionate about what he writes that he commits to these long sentences. If we take the time to listen and contemplate, we start realise what Peter is stating.
Peter, of course, wants us to realise that salvation comes through Jesus Christ and Him alone, This salvation did not just drop out of the air, but it has a history of being revealed to the prophets. The prophets knew from the movements of the Lord in their own lives and times that He was going to send His Messiah, and they tried to discern the time and circumstances of that coming. And they knew that this coming of the Messiah was not for themselves for a future generation.
Peter desires for us to marvel that we today, Christians, are the ones to whom the messiah has come, and that we are to glory in this. It is a mystery maybe akin to his own experience when the Lord revealed His glory on Mt Tabor, a mystery into which even the angels cannot peer.
The Lord has given us living hope, an unfailing inheritance, and salvation that has begun that will be completed when He returns – we are the fulfilment of the promises of the Lord. Like our Lord Himself, trials will arise by which we will suffer – and that is how His glory is revealed through to the world. This is like a pool of inexpressible joy. Today, let’s jump into and rest in that pool!