First Peter: Humility | Part 1: Trials — Make It or Break It

Make It or Break It: Three Ways to Make It Through Suffering

1 Peter – 1:10-16

“It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.” ― A.W. Tozer

Humility is a posture of the heart that submits to God.

1 Peter 1:10-12, Of this salvation the prophets have inquired and searched carefully, who prophesied of the grace that would come to you, searching what, or what manner of time, the Spirit of Christ who was in them was indicating when He testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow. To them it was revealed that, not to themselves, but to us they were ministering the things which now have been reported to you through those who have preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven—things which angels desire to look into.

1. The message

Psalm 119:50, This is my comfort in my affliction, for Your word has given me life.

1 Peter 1:13, Therefore gird up the loins of your mind [ready your mind for action], be sober, and rest your hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

2. The mentality

“Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” ~ Charles Swindoll

Hope is the result of placing your faith in what cannot be seen.

2 Corinthians 12:9, And He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” 

God doesn't give hypothetical grace for our hypothetical nightmare situation. He only gives us sufficient grace for the situation.

1 Peter 1:14-16, As obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts, as in your ignorance; but as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, because it is written, “Be holy, for I am holy.”

3. The mandate

Don’t use your suffering as a license to sin.