Extraordinary Ordinary!Campione

Peter was the rugged fisherman who spoke before he thought, acted before he asked, and was bold enough to try to correct Jesus a time or two. Really, Peter? Correcting Jesus? Peter had a favorite word that he used often and emphatically. This impetuous, outspoken, opinionated disciple used one particular word no less than seven times in two very short books in the Bible. Would you like to know the word that rolled off Peter’s tongue and pen often and with meaning? The word is “precious.”

Precious is a word that mothers generously splatter when describing babies and bouquets and greeting cards. But a stubborn fisherman? A man that smelled like fish guts half his life and went about cutting off people’s ears? Precious? Peter? What are you talking about?

Peter was a man who knew the value of the promises of God and he knew of no other way to describe them but by calling them what they were: precious. Peter was attempting, with the help of the Holy Spirit, to communicate the intrinsic value and long-lasting impact of that which is found in the Word of God. Peter, the man on a mission, shouts through the ages, “Don’t take the promises of God for granted! Realize the purpose of His promises and hold them dear and close to your life.”

The Bible promises that God’s promises promise that you can share in God’s very own nature. You can savor all He is and then marinate in it to the extent that you become it! You have the potential of ingesting His very personality and exhibiting His very character. Your life becomes a place of demonstration of His fruit and His power. You are no longer like you ... because of the promises ... you are now like Him. He became what we are to make us what He is.