Although the subject of 1 and 2 Peter is God’s government, we need to see that everything concerning God’s government should bring us back to the central focus and basic structure of these Epistles—the Triune God as our full enjoyment to carry out the economy of God.
The preciousness of Peter’s writing is that he combines the Christian life and God’s government, revealing that the Christian life and the government of God go together as a pair.
“The God of all grace”—who has called the believers into His eternal glory—perfects, establishes, strengthens, and grounds them through their sufferings; this “all grace” is the “true grace of God,” into which the believers should enter and in which they stand.
As believers in Christ, we may become a reproduction of Christ as our model, and we can experience and enjoy Christ as the Shepherd of our souls.