Sarah is learning how to knit. When she found out she was pregnant, she got some yarn and knitting needles and started watching Youtube videos about how to knit. So far, she’s finished enough to cover the baby’s left leg pretty securely. Not bad for her first attempt! But her goal is a beautiful striped blanket that looks something like this. She still has about five months.
During Lent, we’re preaching through 1 Peter, and I’ve learned something over the past few weeks. 1 Peter is a difficult book for preaching. Peter takes these really, really dense theological topics and packs them all together into a few close verses - or even in the same sentence.
For example, listen to just one verse from Michael’s text last week: “But you are not like that, for you are a chosen people. You are royal priests, a holy nation, God’s very own possession. As a result, you can show others the goodness of God, for he called you out of the darkness into his wonderful light” (1 Peter 2:9). That’s about five sermons, right there!
Peter packs in heavy words and complex theological topics. Last week, Michael talked about picking out different grains of rice. This week a better metaphor might be to see the different colors of yarn. First, Peter puts all his yarn on the table. He describes each color. Then, at the end, he weaves it all together. To help us see the individual colors of this text, we’ll just work our way through the text bit by bit.
The first color in Peter’s cloth here is green - alien green. And, I like alien because I myself am an alien. In fact, Sarah is giving birth to an alien. So aliens are near and dear to my heart. ...
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