DAILY DEVOTION

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Thursday, June 12
1 Peter 1:22-2:3

YOU HAVE BEEN BORN ANEW
You have been born again...through the living and enduring word of God. 1 Peter 1:23, NIV

Every privilege comes with responsibility. God does not breed irresponsible children. Therefore, when God adopts you as His child, He gives you certain responsibilities so that you can live well and contribute meaningfully to the body of Christ.

The reason you must live well is because you have been born anew. You cannot take it for granted; a life was actually given for your life. God first paid the great price of love for you. He sent His only begotten Son to teach you how to live and to die in your place.

Obedience to Him should be the least you could do to show your gratitude to Him. Therefore, you need to live with the consciousness that you have now been born anew. You can no longer live as of the old time.

Add to yourself virtues that portray you as a new creature - genuine love for the brethren (v. 22) and deep hunger for the Word of God (v. 22, I Peter 2:2) as you determine to drop those things that can slow you down - malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy and slander (1 Peter 2:1).

• Birthday Blessing: "Say to the daughter of Zion, 'See, your Saviour comes! See, his reward is with him, and his recompense accompanies him."  Isaiah 62:11

Read Bible Through Passage: 1 Chronicles 5, 6; John 14

Get on fire for God and men will come to see you burn. – John Wesley