Re:Verse passage – 1 Peter 1:18-25 (day three)
“You were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold from your futile way of life inherited from your forefathers, but with precious blood…”
When the power goes out, you’ll surely catch yourself trying to flip the light switch on; you’re so accustomed to lighting up a room in this way that it’s become second nature. But then you realize: the thing you’ve counted on has failed you. When something that has always before seemed to meet the need with precision and immediacy suddenly doesn’t, that’s distressing. At the scale of the human soul, Peter says, possessions, power, and plans have always been overrated. For now, the lights will eventually come back. But one day, all remedies will fail, save one. Only Christ can do what you thought those things could do. And they don’t love you, either. Christ does.
Bryan, you’ve pretty much summarized the gospel today. In Christ alone, my hope is found.