Shan Dai Advocacy

1 Peter

March 23, 2007 on 1:11 pm | In His First Bible, New Testament, PrayerGrams |

God, bless this monk and the many like him throughout the Shan world. Please open his eyes to see Your holiness. May someone soon communicate to him the truth of Peter’s letter: “For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your forefathers, but with the precious blood of Christ…” (1 Peter 1:18-19 NIV). Jesus, who is our atoning sacrifice, is the only way to a life of meaning and holiness. Peter went on to encourage us about the reality of suffering. God, as we and Shan Dai believers go through the refiner’s fire of suffering may our faith in You, which is of greater worth than any position or possession, be proven as genuine. Arouse us to the reality that if we truly follow You then we go by the way of suffering. Teach us to desire those things that will never fade away, and to pass down to the generations that follow not an empty way of life but one filled with hope. This monk will suffer if he chooses to rid himself of the familiarity and security of his status within the temple. But it is in suffering for righteousness that we are made complete. We are all urged to live life replacing our sinful desires with Your holy ones. Pious Buddhist monks seek to suppress desires in a hope to obtain holiness. Lord, let them see that apart from You there is no holiness.