Peter was so excited about his new life in Christ that he opened this section of his letter with a doxology. He began this section of his letter with this verse from a doxology, “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ!”

Doxologies have always been a part of worship, with the earliest form dating back to Solomon. But the doxologies used in Jewish worship were given a new meaning in Christian worship. In Judaism the doxology was sung to a God who is distant and remote. The Jews would sing these words in their Jewish doxology, “Blessed art thou, O God.” The Christians, realizing the Messiah had come, sang a doxology to a God who was intimate and personal because God had been made known to them by Jesus. Peter related the Christian doxology to a very personal God as we hear t…