PROMISE #261 - SEPTEMBER 18
Promise #261:
I have called you to inherit My blessing.
1 Peter 3:9 WEB
not rendering evil for evil, or insult for insult; but instead blessing;
knowing that to this were you called, that you may inherit a blessing.
In this Scripture passage, the Apostle Peter encourages us not to repay evil for evil but rather to be a blessing instead. If we live from an orphan perspective, we will have to scratch and claw for everything we get in life. When people do evil things to us, we will need to respond in the same way back to them. The life of an orphan is lonely and scary. An orphan is left to their own devices to manage life.
The life of a son or daughter, however, is quite different. They know that they are loved beyond imagination and are safe from harm. They live in the reassurance that they are blessed beyond measure and have a rich inheritance of many blessings yet to come. In Ephesians 1:3, the Bible says that our heavenly Father has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in heaven. So that means the life that we are called to live is a life of abundance and blessing.
That is why when someone acts in an 'orphan-like' way to us, even a brother or sister in Christ, we don't have to respond similarly; we can respond with blessings. May each of us be so filled with the revelation that we have been called to inherit a blessing that we become an absolute outflow of blessings to others!
I have called you to inherit My blessing.
1 Peter 3:9 WEB
not rendering evil for evil, or insult for insult; but instead blessing;
knowing that to this were you called, that you may inherit a blessing.
In this Scripture passage, the Apostle Peter encourages us not to repay evil for evil but rather to be a blessing instead. If we live from an orphan perspective, we will have to scratch and claw for everything we get in life. When people do evil things to us, we will need to respond in the same way back to them. The life of an orphan is lonely and scary. An orphan is left to their own devices to manage life.
The life of a son or daughter, however, is quite different. They know that they are loved beyond imagination and are safe from harm. They live in the reassurance that they are blessed beyond measure and have a rich inheritance of many blessings yet to come. In Ephesians 1:3, the Bible says that our heavenly Father has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in heaven. So that means the life that we are called to live is a life of abundance and blessing.
That is why when someone acts in an 'orphan-like' way to us, even a brother or sister in Christ, we don't have to respond similarly; we can respond with blessings. May each of us be so filled with the revelation that we have been called to inherit a blessing that we become an absolute outflow of blessings to others!