Daily Devotions
1 Peter
"According to His abundant mercy"
Text: 1 Peter 1:3
THE ATTRIBUTES OF GOD
There are many attributes of God. One of the most significant self-revelations of God may be found in the Book of Exodus.
“Now the LORD descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD.
And the LORD passed before him and proclaimed,
‘The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth,
keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty,
visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.'”Exodus 34:5-7
1. Some attributes highlighted:
a) Merciful
b) Gracious
c) Longsuffering
d) Abounding in goodness and truth
2. The attributes of God were evidenced time and again in the history of Israel
a) God kept showing mercy for thousands.
b) In His mercy, He forgave:
i) Iniquity
ii) Transgression
iii) Sin
c) But where there is no repentance:
Then He reserves the prerogative to discipline and punish, even to the fourth generation.
3. The consciousness of God
a) Being a Jew, Peter would have been brought up to fear God.
b) That he would have knowledge of the basic concepts of God would be a foregone conclusion.
THE GOD THAT PETER CAME TO BELIEVE IN
Simon Peter came to have a rich and personal faith in God.
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again
to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.”1 Peter 1:3