Meditation on Peter’s thoughts on salvation today..and what it implies: St Peter’s spiritual continuum!

  Playing with my helmet of salvation today. The idea of salvation as the beginning of the process not the end. Came across something St Peter said about salvation, which felt true again. I liked his idea of salvation as a process of spiritual growth, not just a single instant. We get saved, then we work it out, and grow it up, sort of thing. He was really into the spiritual continuum of life into the next, and living accordingly- “for you are receiving the end result of your faith, the salvation of your souls.” (I Peter 1:9)

  So, having already begun to receive the salvation of your souls, live accordingly; this was for him a motivation for godliness…. He put it like this later in the letter: “Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.”

   He also taught us to have sincere love for one another in the light of this.  “Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for each other, love one another deeply, from the heart.” Not bad advice.

 Nice meditation today. Most people don’t like to think of salvation much, but I still find it interesting, as the start of a long process.

 People get saved, then what. That’s just the first step. We get out of Egypt, then the wilderness training, downloading the law (His rules from His Ways) into our hearts, the crossing over the Jordan (the necessary deaths to self) into our lands; then, the occupation, possession and cultivation, the making whole—it’s a journey, spiritual growth!

 “Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling. Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms.”

  Love is what we do in the meantime, while growing in His Nature! It’s our default setting until…

  Peter’s basic point throughout his letters is-in light of your salvation, live well.

 Live in the spiritual continuum, you have already entered through Christ. Increase in His Ways, as you go, now that you have tasted (the beginning of the salvation process). Good stuff. A call to ongoing sanctification, or growing up into Christ, growing up into our salvation.