"WHOLESOME THINKING"

“Dear friends, this is now my second letter to you. I have written both of them as reminders to stimulate you to wholesome thinking.” 1 Peter 3:1

Peter writes two general epistles, in effect, to all the believers and consequent believers from when he preached on Pentecost. Remember in Acts 2 Peter gives an amazing message that people from all over the world hear. Many believe and take that fresh faith home. Churches in the far reaches of the known world are begun and Peter is concerned about them and wanting to remind them of the basic tenets of Christianity and to make sure that they are believing right and thinking straight. Peter is trying to stimulate, even if that takes a little “shocking,” everyone who reads his letter to check their foundations, to get back to their routes, to look at the map and consider where they are and where they started. This is good counsel. If “wholesome thinking,” what I would call “an objective biblical view,” is not maintained, we easily get distracted or thrown off by unwholesome thinking, or the worldly view, better known as “stinkin thinkin.” Good for all of us to check in with the basics regularly so we don’t lose our way or, better yet, His Way.

In Him,
Pastor Fred

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