November 1 Daily Devotional

Bible Reading

1 Peter 1:13-25:

¹³Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
¹⁴As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
¹⁵But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;
¹⁶Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
¹⁷And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:
¹⁸Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
¹⁹But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
²⁰Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
²¹Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.
²²Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
²³Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
²⁴For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
²⁵But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.

Devotional

The Holy Scriptures are the Word of God. In them God speaks to sinful men. In our time many do not believe this. They do not want to be bound by any laws of God or man. They want to be free; so they reject God's Word. They will not acknowledge that man is a sinner, in need of a Saviour, as Scripture teaches. They want to be their own saviour; hence they remain bound with the chains of sin and of Satan. They will not see that the Word of God is "a lamp unto their feet, and a light unto their path." Therefore they walk in darkness, and know not whither they go. "Darkness hath blinded his eyes." "The way of peace they know not." They walk on the broad way that leads to destruction. They think themselves wise, but have become fools. He that rejects the Word of God, rejects God, and with him his soul's salvation. But we who believe will not be led astray by those who do not understand what they say, nor whereof they affirm. We will cling to the Word as "a lamp unto our feet, a light unto our path," as the bread of life, as the sword of the Spirit, as the fountain of life. We shall confess that Christ died, was buried and rose again according to the Scriptures. "The word of the Lord endureth forever."

Prayer

O God, we cannot sufficiently thank Thee for Thy Word. Without Thy Word we would be in darkness and could not know the way of salvation. But in Thy Word we see our­selves as lost sinners, and Jesus Christ as our only and complete Saviour. Help us to study Thy Word, and to put our whole trust in Jesus Christ our Saviour. Amen.

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Scripture in Devotional: 2 Tim. 2:26; Ps. 119:105; John 12:35; 1 John 2:11; Isa. 59:8; Matt. 7:13; Rom. 1:22; 1 Tim. 1:17; Ps. 119:105; John 6:35; Eph. 6:17; Ps. 36:9; 1 Cor. 15:4; 1 Pet. 1:25.

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