Passage of the Day: 06/03/09
1 Peter 1:6-7 “In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. 7These have come so that your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.”
This passage was originally written by the apostle Peter to believers in Asia who were suffering persecution. So when he mentioned the words “suffer grief in all kinds of trials”, the kind of suffering and trials he was talking about was something that involved life and death for many of the believers. The persecution of the Christians during the time of the Roman empire was so grave that Paul had to write the believers and encourage them.
The encouragement of Paul in this passage may also be useful for us who are suffering even in a slightly easier situation. And if the situation is as grave as the life and death situation that the believers Peter addressed were in, then this passage is all the more applicable.
May our faith be proven genuine and result in the praise, glory and honor of Christ!
