梦游圣经66本书

📅 日期：2025年6月21日
📖【彼得后书 3:1】
“亲爱的弟兄啊，我现在写给你们的是第二封信。这两封都是提醒你们，激发你们诚实的心。”

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一、彼得：从软弱到托付

彼得曾三次不认主（路22:61），也三次被主耶稣温柔地问：“你爱我吗？”（约21:15–17）。他没有被定罪，反而被主恢复，并被托付“喂养我的羊”。

彼得深知，自己能站立，是因着主的怜悯。他也明白，一个曾被主提醒、被主唤醒的人，更有责任去唤醒他人。因此，在生命将尽之时，他写下这封充满爱与迫切的劝勉书信。

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二、彼得后书 3:1的属灵亮光

📖 “亲爱的弟兄啊”（彼后3:1）
彼得在第三章中四次称信徒为“亲爱的”，流露出一位属灵长者温柔的心肠。这不是命令，而是爱的劝勉。

📖 “我现在写给你们的是第二封信。”（彼后3:1）
彼得知道信徒容易遗忘，也容易被世俗迷惑。他不厌其烦地再次写信，为的是坚定信心，保守清醒。

📖 “这两封都是提醒你们”（彼后3:1）
提醒是出于爱，是属灵的警钟。正如主耶稣曾不断对门徒说：“我实实在在地告诉你们……”彼得在第三章中也持续提醒信徒要警醒、要记念、要仰望主的应许。

📖 “激发你们诚实的心”（彼后3:1）
“诚实”原文是纯洁、无掺杂的意思。彼得渴望信徒在等候主再来的日子中，能持守一颗敬畏主、忠诚不移的心（参彼后3:11–12）。

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三、属灵反思

✅ 被祢提醒过的人，更懂得提醒的恩典
彼得没有掩饰自己的失败，而是将那被主唤醒、被主恢复的经历，转化为对教会深切的劝勉。他提醒他人，并非因为自己完美，而是因为他真切经历了主的恩典。

✅ 信心需要被持续唤醒
彼得在第三章末尾劝勉：“要在我们主救主耶稣基督的恩典和知识上有长进。”（彼后3:18）属灵的火若不加添，就会熄灭；信心若不激发，就会冷淡。

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四、回应与祷告

📌 我是否愿意像彼得一样，将自己的软弱转化为属灵的力量？
📌 我今天的心，是沉睡的，还是被祢激发、充满敬虔的？

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🙏 回应祷告：

主啊，
祢曾温柔地提醒彼得，祢也一再提醒我。
求祢赐我一颗清洁、诚实的心，
让我在祢的真理中被唤醒，在祢的爱中被激发。
愿我不再沉睡，不再冷淡，
让我成为一个被祢点燃、也能去点燃他人的人，
忠心传递属灵的火种，直到见祢面。
奉主耶稣基督的名祷告，阿们。

✨Awakening a Sincere Heart — Peter: From One Reminded to One Who Reminds

📅 Date: June 21, 2025
📖 2 Peter 3:1
“Dear friends, this is now my second letter to you. I have written both of them as reminders to stimulate you to wholesome thinking.”

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1. Peter: From Weakness to Commission

Peter once denied the Lord three times (Luke 22:61), and the Lord Jesus gently asked him three times, “Do you love Me?” (John 21:15–17). Instead of condemnation, Jesus restored him, and entrusted him with a mission: “Feed My sheep.”

Peter knew deeply that it was only by the Lord’s mercy that he could stand again. And he understood this too — one who has been reminded and awakened by the Lord bears the responsibility to awaken others. So, near the end of his life, he wrote this letter, filled with urgency and love.

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2. Spiritual Light in 2 Peter 3:1

📖 “Dear friends…” (2 Peter 3:1)
Peter uses this address four times in chapter 3 (vv. 1, 8, 14, 17), revealing the tenderness of a spiritual elder. His words are not commands, but heartfelt exhortations.

📖 “This is now my second letter to you.” (2 Peter 3:1)
Peter knew believers are prone to forget and to be swayed by the world. He wrote again—not out of repetition, but to strengthen their faith and keep them spiritually awake.

📖 “Both of them as reminders” (2 Peter 3:1)
Reminders come from love; they are spiritual wake-up calls. Just as Jesus often said to His disciples, “Truly, truly, I say to you…,” Peter too repeatedly reminded the church—to stay alert, to remember, and to fix their hope on God’s promise.

📖 “To stimulate you to wholesome thinking” (2 Peter 3:1)
The word translated “wholesome” means pure, unmixed, sincere. Peter desired that believers, as they await the Lord’s return, would guard a heart that is reverent and unwavering in loyalty (see 2 Peter 3:11–12).

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3. Spiritual Reflection

✅ Those reminded by You understand the grace of reminders
Peter didn’t hide his past failures. Instead, he turned his own journey of being awakened and restored by the Lord into deep exhortation for the church. He reminded others not from perfection, but from having experienced grace.

✅ Faith must be continually awakened
At the end of chapter 3, Peter exhorts: “Grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” (2 Peter 3:18). Spiritual fire fades if not fueled; faith cools if not stirred.

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4. Response and Prayer

📌 Am I willing, like Peter, to let my weakness become spiritual strength?
📌 Is my heart today asleep, or awakened and filled with reverence by You?

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🙏 Prayer of Response:

Lord,
You gently reminded Peter, and You have reminded me again and again.
Please give me a pure and sincere heart.
Let me be awakened by Your truth, and ignited by Your love.
May I no longer sleep or grow cold.
Make me one who is kindled by You, and able to kindle others—
Faithfully passing on the flame of the Spirit, until I see You face to face.
In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, I pray. Amen.