Though You Have Not Seen Him, You Love Him!
1 Peter 1:
8 ) Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory, 9)obtaining the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls.
I can just sense the joy in Peter’s heart as he is writing these passages of scripture! Here is Peter, a man who physically walked with Jesus, who was personally taught by Jesus, watched Jesus die, and saw Him risen from the dead! This man who had the privalege to know Him personally, yet he is hearing about people from all around the known world, coming to know Christ by the preaching of the gospel, and the power of the Holy Spirit!
I’m sure his thoughts go back to a sun-drenched beach on the Sea of Gallilee. He and his brother Andrew were fishing when this man came and told them “Come follow Me and I will make you fishers of men!” I’m sure throughout his time with Christ, Peter was trying to figure out in his head “How am I going to be a fisher of men?” “Why is anyone going to listen to me? I’m just a fisherman!” ” I have never preached anything!” ” How am I going to do this?”
Sitting there, writing that letter, had to be such a humbling, awe-inspiring thing. It should inspire us to dream big! It should inspire us to believe big! If God used these men that noone, including themselves, believed could do anything of worth, could truly impact their world(literally), how much more you and I, we who have not seen Him with our physical eyes, lovers of Christ, cleansed by His blood, filled with His Holy Spirit can make a difference in the world today!! We who were not worthy of His grace. Dirty and depraved we were lost in our sins, but now we rejoice because we are truly alive!!!
We love Him for what He has done for us despite the fact we cannot see Him with our eyes! We have experienced His love in a powerful way, by faith in Him. We live for Him, becaused He first loved us! We know one day we will see Him. Face to face. What a day that will be!!!
Kevin
