Thirteen TO YOU WHO BELIEVE, HE IS PRECIOUS A Meditation on 1 Peter 2:7 “TO YOU … WHO BELIEVE, [CHRIST] IS PRECIOUS” (1 Peter 2:7, RSV). The mark of a child of God is not perfection, but hunger for Christ. If we have tasted the kindness of the Lord, we will desire him (1 Peter 2:2–3). The reason for this is that a child has the nature of its father. We are partakers of the divine nature (2 Peter 1:4) if we are born of God and have His seed abiding in us (1 John 3:9). We are, as it were, chips off
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