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Peter 1:20
He was destined before
the foundation of the world, but was revealed at the end of the ages for your sake.
He does it for us. Destiny from before creation, revealed at ‘the
end of the age’, the end of the age that Peter knew. Jesus did it for us, for our sakes. This is what Peter is telling his original
audience and it is the same message for us now.
If you look at the evidence of the
supernatural in the Bible, you know about the devil, Satan, Lucifer, once an
angel of the Lord, cast out of heaven, now the one who would seek to destroy
the work of God. What Jesus does for our
sakes, a portion of that is so that we shall not end up in hell with
Satan. The battle for the fate of
humanity is found throughout the bible.
Jesus was destined from the very beginning to provide us with victory.
Maybe the literal description of hell
and the devil does not touch your soul as you consider your faith. A fair consideration of evil and sin
must. Even if the idea of Hell and
Lucifer are, for you, metaphoric in their intent, sin in the world is
undeniable. Actually, that is not entirely
true. There are some amazing ‘deny-ers’
out there. But Jesus did the things of
salvation history for our sake, to navigate us through the evil that humanity
does and bring us to something better.
Tradition tells us that God has done
this, sent his only Son, become human, taking the form of a servant, because
God loves us. That is why all this is
done for our sake. Do we then move with
what has been given to us or do we reject it?
Does it enrich our lives, does it lead us to trust God that we can be
better than we feel right now?
I think it does.
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