Cleverly Devised Myths
August 8, 2023
“Cleverly Devised Myths”
Blessings folk!
The next word that Peter writes is “for”.
Yes, we know.
What is it there for?
It builds upon that which was previously written.
Read carefully.
Slowly.
This is profound.
2 Pe 1:16
For we did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
ESV
Peter reminded them.
He told them about the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ the first time.
He told them about the power of the Lord Jesus Christ.
He did not follow a cleverly devised myth.
He did not create a story of fiction.
He told them truth.
He told them what he had seen.
He told them what he had experienced.
He was an eyewitness.
An eyewitness of the Majesty of the Lord Jesus.
Peter provides more detail in the next verses.
For today, can we speak the same way?
Do we tell of the Power of the Lord?
Have we experienced His Power?
Do we speak of His coming and His return?
Have we experienced it?
Are you a true experiential “eyewitness” of the transformative Power of the Lord?
Or…
Are you a religionist?