I Peter 4:11
“That way, God’s bright presence will be evident in everything through Jesus, and he’ll get all the credit as the One mighty in everything—encores to the end of time. Oh, yes!”
“Then everything you do will being glory to God through Jesus Christ. All glory and power to him forever and ever! Amen.”
Peter has just finished exhorting believers to a generous, loving life towards everyone, closing with this call to praise. He walked with Jesus for three years and knew him first as an ordinary human who had bodily functions, needs and emotions as we do. Lessons learned on the road with Jesus and later via the Holy Spirit changed how Peter and the other disciples looked at Jesus. He changed from fully human to fully divine and then both at once. How heads must have hurt from stretching! I am familiar with the divine Jesus. I need more of the man Jesus whom Peter knew first, the temporal one, who has taught believers through the centuries by his example how to love and serve in real time.
Lord, grant me this understanding. May I grow to be more like the man you were on earth, a faithful shepherd and willing servant. Give me better instinct for the temporal that I may bring you more glory in the eternal.