"What shall we do?" And Peter said to them, "Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is to you and to your children and to all that are far off, every one whom the Lord our God calls to him." Acts 2:37-39

"Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory"
(Eph. 1:14).

In other words the Apostle's teaching is that the Holy Spirit within us gives us what we as Christians should be enjoying--a foretaste of heaven! Our coming together in public worship should be a foretaste of heaven. As we meet to consider these things, and to talk about them, and to discuss them, we are having a foretaste of heaven. Public worship should be a gathering of the firstfruits, a sampling of what is to be our lot in heaven. These New Testament Epistles constantly urge us to look forward to the enjoyment of heaven. We know little of what that means, and we are told but little about it in the Scriptures, but we can safely say that the two chief blessings in heaven will be to see our blessed Lord and Saviour, and to become like Him. 'Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God' (Matthew 5:8). 'Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be; but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is' (1 John 3:2). To see our blessed Lord and Saviour face to face, to see God; this is beyond our comprehension, and we cannot grasp it because it is so glorious. But in heaven we shall see God, and look into the face of our blessed Saviour who died for us. All we have at present, even our highest experiences, are the firstfruits; they are only the foretaste of bliss.

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Today's Devotional

Peter's Prayer by C. H. Spurgeon

"Beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me."

--Matthew 14:30

Sinking times are praying times with the Lord's servants. Peter neglected prayer at starting upon his venturous journey, but when he began to sink his danger made him a suppliant, and his cry though late was not too late. In our hours of bodily pain and mental anguish, we find ourselves as naturally driven to prayer as the wreck is driven upon the shore by the waves. The fox hies to its hole for protection; the bird flies to the wood for shelter; and even so the tried believer hastens to the mercy seat for safety. Heaven's great harbour of refuge is All-prayer; thousands of weather-beaten vessels have found a haven there, and the moment a storm comes on, it is wise for us to make for it with all sail.

Short prayers are long enough. There were but three words in the petition which Peter gasped out, but they were sufficient for his purpose. Not length but strength is desirable. A sense of need is a mighty teacher of brevity. If our prayers had less of the tail feathers of pride and more wing they would be all the better. Verbiage is to devotion as chaff to the wheat. Precious things lie in small compass, and all that is real prayer in many a long address might have been uttered in a petition as short as that of Peter.

Our extremities are the Lord's opportunities. Immediately a keen sense of danger forces an anxious cry from us the ear of Jesus hears, and with Him ear and heart go together, and the hand does not long linger. At the last moment we appeal to our Master, but His swift hand makes up for our delays by instant and effectual action. Are we nearly engulfed by the boisterous waters of affliction? Let us then lift up our souls unto our Saviour, and we may rest assured that He will not suffer us to perish. When we can do nothing Jesus can do all things; let us enlist His powerful aid upon our side, and all will be well.

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