Loving the One we have not seen1 Peter 1:3-9Length: Standard

1 Eat

Read the passage slowly, read it again, then retell it in your own words. If you can't retell it, read it once more.

• Read
• Reread
• Retell

2 Digest

Answer from what the passage actually says — stay in the text.

1. What does this passage show me about God?

   • What has God already done for us, according to verses 3 to 5, before we have done anything at all?
   • How can people love someone they have never seen? What does this passage suggest?

2. What does it show me about people — and about myself?

   • How does your trust in God hold up when trials come? What does Peter say trials do to faith?

3. What will I obey this week? (a concrete step, with a day)

   • Choose one thing God is (his mercy, his faithfulness, his patience) that you want to know better. When this week will you look for it in the Bible?

4. Who will I tell?

   • Who finds it hard to love a God they cannot see? What could you share with them from this passage?

3 Grow

Growth is God's part, not yours. Do the cycle faithfully and trust Him to give the growth (1 Corinthians 3:6–7).