Reflections on 1 Peter 4:3-6
“For the time past of our life may suffice us to have worked the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revelings, parties, and abominable idolatries: Wherein they think it strange that you run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you: Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead. For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit” (1 Peter 4:3-6).
I like 1 Corinthians 6, where Paul is talking to the church in Corinth, going down the list of people who will not enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Then he says, “And such were some of you: but you are washed, but you are sanctified, but you are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God” (vs. 11).
No one was born saved. We have all sinned and fall short of the glory of God. But God …. Thankfully, He is not willing that ANY should perish but that ALL should come to repentance. He continues to show us grace and mercy and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
As God continues to clean you up, to convict you of sin that is keeping you from the ultimate communion with Him, don’t be like pigs who return to the mire. Allow Him to continue to wash you whiter than snow so that you can spend eternity with Him. Although sin may be pleasurable for a season, it is not worth missing the life God has in store for those who serve Him.
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