1Peter 2

Again, we run across this idea of ‘aliens and strangers’ in today’s passage in 1Peter.  Peter is writing to the churches of Asia Minor, what we know today as Turkey, who are suffering grief as the result of some type of trial (1:6).  In his greeting, he addresses them as ‘strangers in the world’ and then goes on in chapter 1 to lay the foundation for exactly why they are strangers.  Again, this foundation is of a spiritual, supernatural character.  They are ‘born again to a living hope’ (1:3 NASB) through the resurrection of Christ with an inheritance waiting for them in heaven.  He encourages them to prepare their minds for action and to fix their hope completely on the grace to be revealed to them in Christ (1:13).

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