Reformed Doctrine Daily Devotions

Today’s devotion comes from 1 Peter 3:18-20.

 

“For Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;  in which also He went and made proclamation to the spirits now in prison, who once were disobedient, when the patience of God kept waiting in the days of Noah, during the construction of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through the water.”  1 Peter 3:18-20. 

 

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“For Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God“.  What a message of love and salvation!

                                          

I thought of some wonderful ways Christ brought us to God, and there are other ways:

First, Christ brought us to God by His sacrificial death by which our sins are forgiven and by which we are justified, sanctified, and reconciled to God.  See 1 Peter 3:18 above.

Second, Christ brought us to God by coming to earth to be our Immanuel, “GOD WITH US”.  Matthew 1:23.

Third, Christ brought us to God by sending us the Holy Spirit to indwell us.  See for example John 14:16 & 26, John 16:7 & 13-15; and Acts 1:8.

Fourth, Christ brought us to God by giving us eternal life to be with God:  “…the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 6:23.

Fifth, Christ brought us to God by giving us the right to become children of God.  “But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name,” John 1:12.

Sixth, Christ brought us to God by being the Word and teaching us grace and truth:  “And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.” John 1:14.　

Seventh, Christ brought us to God by giving us glory.  “The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one;  I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me.  Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.”  John 17:22-24.