1 Peter: Our Glorious Salvation, Part V

The title we’ve been using for this 5-part series of posts is “Our Glorious Salvation.” Glorious things are weighty, heavy, substantial. (Paul conveys this idea with the phrase “weight of glory” in 2 Corinthians 4:17.) If you put glorious things at the center of your life, their weightiness gives your life stability. It’s the same principle used in shipbuilding: when a vessel is too light in itself to withstand the battering of the wind and waves, engineers install a heavy ballast in the bottom of the ship to give it stability in the water. If you find that the storms of life leave you emotionally battered, mentally tossed, and spiritually upended, it’s likely that your life is centered on things that are less than glorious. They are light, unimportant, and momentary.

God’s gift of salvation is gloriously weighty, and a heart centered on it is stable and steadfast. In 1 Peter 1:10-12, Peter gives us five facts that highlight the glory, the weightiness of the salvation God has given us. We’ve finally reached Fact Five:

ANGELS LONG TO LOOK INTO IT.

…things into which angels long to look. 1 Peter 1:12

You know it must be a glorious salvation if it attracts the attention of angels. The verb “long” is present tense, indicating that this is an ongoing desire on the part of holy angels. Peter uses language which implies that angels are looking in from the vantage point of outsiders. They don’t know salvation by experience, but they are irresistibly attracted to it. Their curiosity highlights the wonder and worth of our salvation.

Angels know it’s a glorious salvation. They are preoccupied with it, almost as though they have to be torn away from their study of our salvation in order to fulfill some other duty. What preoccupies you?

Christians are more privileged than the prophets of old or the angels above. And to the extent that we believe these truths, meditate on them, and bring them into the center of our lives, we will be stabilized by the weight of our glorious salvation.

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