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TUESDAY MARCH 1


LEANING INTO THE LIGHT

READ:
1 Peter 2:9
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[He] called you out
of darkness into his
wonderful light
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One day I received a bouquet of pink tulips. Their heads bobbed on thick stems as I settled them into a vase, which I placed at the center of our kitchen table. The next day, I noticed that the flowers were facing a different direction. The blossoms that once faced upward were reaching toward sunlight that streamed in through a nearby window.

In one sense, we all we were made to be like those flowers. God has called us to turn to the light of His love. Peter writes of the wonder of being called “out of darkness into [God’s] wonderful light’ (1 Peter 2:9). Before we come to know God, we live in the shadows of sin and death, which keep us separated from Him (EPH. 2:1-7). However, because of God’s mercy and love, He made a way for us to escape spiritual darkness through the death and resurrection of His Son (COL. 1:13-14).

Jesus is the Light of the world, and everyone who trusts Him for the forgiveness of sin will receive eternal life. Only as we turn to Him will we increasingly reflect His goodness and truth (EPH. 5:8-9).

May we never forget to lean into the Light.

__Jennifer Benson Schuldt

** joyful, joyful we adore You, God of glory, Lord of love;
hearts unfold like flowers before You, opening to the sun above.
Henry van Dyke
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Salvation from sin means moving from spiritual darkness to God’s light.

********************Today’s Bible Reading __ 1 Peter 2:4-10*******************
4 As you come to him, the living Stone__rejected by
humans but chosen by God and precious to him__ 5 you
also, like living stones are being built into a spiritual
house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual
sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 6 For in
Scripture it says:

“see, I lay a stone in Zion, a chosen and precious cornerstone,
and the one who trusts in him will never be put to shame.”

7 Now to you who believe, this stone the builders rejected has become
the cornerstone,” 8 and, “A stone that causes people to stumble
and a rock that makes them all.


They stumble because they disobey the message__which is
also what they were destined for

9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy
nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the
praises of him who called you out of darkness into this wonderful
light. 10 Once you were not a people, but now you are the people
of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have
received mercy.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>INSIGHT<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
One of the great comparisons in the New
Testament is between light and darkness. It is a hallmark of the
apostle John’s writings (see John 1), but in today’s text Peter uses
light and darkness to describe salvation’s transition. We are called
“out of darkness into [God’s] wonderful light” (v.9).