2 Peter 1:1

2 Peter 1:1
Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ have received a faith as precious as ours:

It is so important to take notice of the simple introduction Peter offers of himself. He like Paul starts his letter by stating that he is a servant. How easy is it for us Christians to take advantage of our Christianity and to never acknowledge the fact that we are bought at a price 1 Cor. 6:20. We are saved by God and purchased into his servitude. So, we will keep this in mind as we study each verse of this book, We are servants of God! So what do we know about servants? Servants are at the mercy of their master. A servant does not have an option to follow or not he is the property of his master. We are at the advantage as Christians because our master is pure, holy and just. There is no evil in our master so it should be easy for us to follow what He commands us to do. Peter tells us who is master is, Christ! Jesus Christ is our good and holy master who sends us servants into various ministries of service. Peters act of service here specifically is to write a letter to other Christians.

Peter is writing to those of us who have been saved through the righteousness of Jesus Christ. Stop here! We must try to grasp how great this truth is, we are saved through Jesus Christ’s righteousness. Why on earth would the God of the universe give us His righteousness? In perfect honesty I have no idea why we are objects of God’s love and that He would grant us his righteousness. It is through this righteousness that we are able to receive this faith. This faith is described as precious. Do we really consider our faith a precious gift? We love the fact that we have been saved but rarely do we hold as precious. When we have something precious we spend all of our time thinking about it we cherish what we view as precious. This is how we need to view this faith that we have been granted. Hold on to faith, and contemplate it, obsess over it, but do not forget that faith is nothing more than what it is based on. Faith in faith is worthless so remember that this faith is through righteousness. Not just any righteousness but Christ’s righteousness! We have faith in Christ and that must be the main thrust of anything we study. So the two things we need to keep in constant focus is that we are servants and must obey and that our servitude is precious to us.