THE NEED FOR REMINDERS

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The scriptures. May God bless the reading of His holy word.

So I will always remind you of these things, even though you know them and are firmly established in the truth you now have. I think it is right to refresh your memory as long as I live in the tent of this body.

Dear friends, this is now my second letter to you. I have written both of them as reminders to stimulate you to wholesome thinking. I want you to recall the words spoken in the past by the holy prophets and the command given by our Lord and Savior through your apostles.

2 Peter 1:12-13, 3:1-2

This ends this reading from God's holy word. Thanks be to God.

The Word of God is absolutely and utterly amazing.

Wouldn’t you agree?

There’s little wonder that the Bible is the bestselling book of all time and it always will be because no other collection of writings comes from the Lord Himself and therefore is as alive as He is. Every single letter from Genesis to Revelation is timeless and eternal, taking on the very nature of their author.

And since the scriptures are alive, they never cease to instruct, inspire, encourage, convict, and condemn Christian believers depending on where they might be at any time in life. When they read the Word of the God, whether in the Old or the New Testament, Holy Spirit brings them to life within our hearts and minds, conforming us to the Lord’s will while transforming us to be the people He wants us to be. Conversely, the Bible can also drive sinners to the place where they receive the Holy Spirit after understand that believing in Jesus as Savior is the only escape from their absolute sinfulness and wretchedness, a sinfulness and wretchedness that the Lord despises, a sinfulness and wretchedness that only leads to one outcome: eternal torment and damnation in Hell.

So the Bible instructs us and directs us, especially in regard to our need for salvation through a Divine Savior Jesus. It also works to remind us of things we need to remember. Look again at today’s scripture passages from the first and third chapters of 2 Peter:

So I will always remind you of these things, even though you know them and are firmly established in the truth you now have. I think it is right to refresh your memory as long as I live in the tent of this body. 1:12-13

Dear friends, this is now my second letter to you. I have written both of them as reminders to stimulate you to wholesome thinking. I want you to recall the words spoken in the past by the holy prophets and the command given by our Lord and Savior through your apostles. 3:1-2

Here we find Peter showing us the need for reminders as he writes to brothers and sisters in Christ who he identifies as “God’s elect” who were “exiles scattered throughout the provinces of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia” (1 Peter 1:1). We see him acknowledge doing this “even though” they might have already known what he was saying, having “firmly” establishing the Word “in the truth” they believed. Still Peter felt it was “right to refresh” their “memory” and do so “as long as” he lived in the “tent” of his “body”. Peter sought to “stimulate” his readers “to wholesome thinking” and to ensure they recalled “the words spoken in the past by the holy prophets” and the commands “given by” the Lord “through” His “apostles”.

This process of embracing reminders found in the scriptures is an important part of Bible study here in the 21st century. For every time we open up the Word and read it, we find the Lord revealing new truths to us as well as reminding us of what we need to remember and apply while living the Christian life and following in the footsteps of countless saints who have gone before us.

Friends, as Jesus followers and adopted children of the God Most High, my prayer is that we see our special need for reminders from our Lord, reminders consistently conveyed through His Word, the Word we should cherish and love so much.

Amen.

In Christ,

Mark

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