Read Through the Bible in a Year 2018 Day 355: Be on Guard

Good morning, everyone!

Today I read 1 Peter 1-3.

I'll be honest, I didn't understand a lot of what I read today. It's possible I just read it too fast without absorbing much of it. Which means I'll need to read it again. Probably again and again. Which makes me really happy. Even when I don't understand what's going on, I love to read my Bible.

That wasn't always the case. When I first started reading my Bible again, I liked reading it, but I wasn't very consistent. And when I tried to make it a habit to read every day, everything in me rebelled. I didn't want to read it at all some days, and some days I would forget, and then I'd feel really bad. 

It took a long time-it always takes a long time to build a habit-but now I can't begin my morning without reading my Bible, and I love to do it.

Well, that was a long digression, but I felt it was important to say that this morning.

So, 1 Peter...let me see if I can find something that resounded within me this morning...

Ah, yes. Peter is talking about watching for the coming day of the Lord, and not being frustrated because He will be on time, since He wants to give everyone a chance at salvation.

1 Peter 3:14-18 - Therefore, beloved, since you look for these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, spotless and blameless, and regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; just as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you, as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction. You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, be on your guard so that you are not carried away by the error of unprincipled men and fall from your on steadfastness, but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory, both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.

So, Peter is saying to be vigilant, because false prophets will arise who will distort scripture (on purpose or by mistake, I would think) and this can lead people astray.

So, my ramble earlier wasn't really such a ramble. I love when that happens! So, we must be diligent in reading God's word, so that we know what it really says. And then if someone tries to distort it, we will know not to believe them. Possibly, we will even have the chance to correct them if they did it in error.

So, that's today's musing. I hope you'll join me tomorrow when I read 1 John 1-5.