Life pleasing to Christ

May my life glorify you Lord. The more we live to glorify God, the more we will refrain from sin. Peter tells us in 1 Peter 4:2 why God breaks the power of the sinful nature at the moment the Christian is saved.


Let's look at verse two: "that he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God."

The word "lust" in Greek speaks of any strong craving, here an evil craving. It is in order that we should no longer live the rest of our earthly life in the sphere of the cravings (lusts) of men, but live in the sphere of the will of God.

Peter urged the believers to no longer live as they had in the past because they had already spent enough time doing so. Let's look at verse three: 1 Peter 4:3 "For we have spent enough of our past lifetime in doing the will of the pagans -- when we walked in lewdness, lusts, drunkenness, revelries, drinking parties, and abominable idolatries.

In a sense, Peter was saying, "You spent more than enough time in sin. Your old way of life must be set aside now, let's move on." These believers had new lives in Christ, so they were to spend the rest of their earthly lives putting aside their sinful human desires and following God's will (4:2).

Let us live every day to the glory of God!