Devotion - Monday, April 4

I Peter 1:12 reminds us how blessed we are.  After speaking of the work of the prophets, who searched and inquired about the salvation to come in Christ, Peter reminds us that what has been shown to us are "thing into which the angels long to look."

That which we have seen are things which the angels hoped they would get to see.  How blessed we are, to have come into the world when the events of Easter are part of our shared experience.  How blessed we are, to know in full what those who followed God through the wilderness searched to find.  How blessed we are.

Too often we look for what is yet to come, rather than celebrate what has been given us.  Too often we anticipate the more to follow, rather than make full use of what is readily at hand.  Sure, there are future glories to come.  But the enormity of that which God has already given us is unimaginable.

We have been shown that "into which the angels long to look."