Remember who you are

We had a prayer meeting on Friday night, looking at 2 Peter 1:1-11. It was really great to be thinking about who we are, why we are to live a distinctive life, and how we are to live like that.

In view of all this, make every effort to respond to God’s promises. Supplement your faith with a generous provision of moral excellence, and moral excellence with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with patient endurance, and patient endurance with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love for everyone.

Remember who you are -: 'partakers in the divine nature', God has given us everything we need for life and godliness, he has called us to his glory and excellence. We are the body of Christ.

Marrieds evening on Saturday looking at an article from the Journal of Biblical Counselling on Speaking Redemptively by Paul Tripp. Really excellent, and so exciting both in marriage and all our relationships, that our words should be used by God to grow our spouses, children, brothers and sisters in Christ.

Yesterday we had our church meeting in the morning, looking at John the Baptist and the baptism of Jesus. How wonderful that we died with Christ, and are raised with Christ! It was just made so wonderfully clear that Jesus chose to be baptised as the first among many brothers. As John said Jesus should have been baptising him, but Jesus insisted on being baptised. Not as a picture of cleansing from sin, because he was perfect and God the Father said so, but as the firstborn, the head of his new people.

And that's who we are God's new people, under the headship of Christ.

(If you don't get the picture - Its from the Lion King, Mufassa tells Simba to remember who he is. But he's only a lion, and king of a lion pride, oh and it's not real! We're children of the King!)