Praise, Glory and Honor

DEVOTION 1 PETER PRAISE, GLORY AND HONOR 1 Peter 1:6-9 6 In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. 7 These have come so that your faith — of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire — may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. 8 Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, 9 for you are receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls. NIV What we are rejoicing in is from the last statement of our spirits being shielded by Gods power and having an inheritance that will never spoil or fade. Here we see that there may be times when in the physical realm troubles might well come our way. Within the Greek text it would imply these troubles are nothing more than temptations by which we are subject to because we are human and we need not grieve because they are opportunities to prove our faith. The unsaved are captive to these temptations, but we believers even though we may fall prey to them at times we are not lost within them, for we have a savior which shred his blood for the forgiveness of our sins. Perfection will never be attained and so failure to achieve a total sinless state only proves the need for Jesus Christ as Savior. It proves we need this faith because without it we are lost, doomed to perish. It is our faith which brings praise, glory and honor to Jesus at his coming. We will be like an army of his showing those who had refused him how great he really is, and that those who had faith in him were the right ones. This brings him honor, glory and praise. Our faith is not about us, but about him. Even though we will receive a great reward as a result of our faith in Christ, it is about him. We need to live demonstrating our faith and in doing so we might find some form of suffering which again is just a temptation to give up and give in to the ways of the world rather than stand for the principles of Christ. When Jesus comes back, we will have great and glorious joy because we will be ushered into the paradise he had prepared for us. Whether he comes or is revealed to each one of us as we die, or that is when he returns in the physical to gather his church, the time we are united with our bodies to meet him in the air, it all is to bring praise, glory and honor to him. The world may think we are stupid to believe in what we cannot see, and to love someone who cannot be seen, but we know the truth and it has set us free from the foolish thinking of this world. This too will bring him praise, glory and honor.