Day 357

December 23rd
1 Peter 5:12-14; 2 Peter 1:1-3:18.  “Living by Faith”
“We may have as much of God as we will.  Christ puts the key of the treasure-chamber into our hand, and bids us take all that we want.  If a man is admitted into the bullion vault of a bank and told to help himself, and comes out with one cent, whose fault is it that he is poor.”     – Alexander MacLaren
Have you ever found yourself stuck in your Christian life?  You are trying to live for God, but you just are not getting anywhere.  If you are anything like me, you have probably thought, “If I just tried a little harder, and prayed more, then I would be alright.”  The problem with this thinking is that it is too focused on you.  Instead of that approach, we must turn to Christ who has “given us everything we need for living a godly life” (2 Peter 1:3).
The means to living a godly life is not found in our personal determination not to sin, but rather in our faith in Christ.
May you see that, not only are you saved by faith, but you live by faith as Christ lives in you.