Grace Under Fire: Lessons from 1 Peter 1&2 (Part 2)

We have an incorruptible inheritance; it can’t spoil, it’s kept in heaven for us. We all have sinned, we all need salvation from sin and deliverance out of this world. But in this life, we must go through suffering. Our faith has to be tested and be found to the praise and glory of God when Christ appears. The purity of our faith must be tested, just as gold is purified by fire. Our reward for trusting Christ will be the salvation of our souls.

God always intended, from the beginning, from the very foundation of the world, before God created Heaven and earth, God had already planned – another kingdom! Another world, something far more glorious! Here is only our training school, this is only our preparation... Jesus taught us that, for what we do here, we will receive a reward there! There are rewards in the Kingdom of God based on our faithfulness on earth! By what we achieve down here! Our whole experience here is looking forward to something future! The Christian life you have at the moment is not the end, it’s only the beginning. What we have down here is not the whole Glory of Salvation, it’s not the whole Glory of what we have in Christ – it’s just a foretaste, a glimpse into the future of what will be ours!