July 7, 2024 BECOMING PARTAKERS
2 Peter 1:3-4 “ seeing that His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence. For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, in order that by them you might become partakes of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust.”
Here is an awesome truth we may often overlook: we have been granted everything pertaining to life and godliness! In Christ we have been made complete and we have all we need! That may sound ludicrous, but its true. We tend to see ourselves as needy. Do not misunderstand; we are complete; but we are also called to be growing in the knowledge of God. It is like we have been introduced to life in Christ, and in this introduction, we learn that we are now complete, but we also learn that now we are in Him, and there is whole new realm of getting to know Him in greater ways. It is only by and through His divine power that we have all we need to pertaining to life and godliness. True, we need to do certain things in this life, but we do so out of a sense of completeness, knowing we have what we need to do whatever we need to do! We know about life and we know about godliness; we know what we need to do in life and we know how to do it; and we know how to be godly in all of our doings because He lives in us. For example; as a follower of Christ, we know that we should respond to situations just as Christ would-and we can because He lives in us. We can be demonstrations of the fruit of the Spirit-love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Life is full of opportunities for us to be light and to demonstrate the very nature of our God. God has given us precious and magnificent promises-and they are not just nice talking points-they are real and they are for the here and now, making a difference. And here is the BIG deal: all that God has done and all that He has granted to us is for the purpose of us partaking of the divine nature. What? We human beings can partake of God’s divine nature? Yes! The old sinful nature we were born with can be replaced by a divine nature-is that not awesome? This does not mean we reach sinless perfection; but it does mean that we we have the power and the choice to live according to the Spirt and not sin. We sin when we choose to yield to our flesh instead of the Spirit. So-in Him, we are complete and sin does not rule over us.
Colossians 2:10 “For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily; and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power.”
Blessings, Buddy
2 Peter 1:3-4 “ seeing that His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence. For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, in order that by them you might become partakes of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust.”
Here is an awesome truth we may often overlook: we have been granted everything pertaining to life and godliness! In Christ we have been made complete and we have all we need! That may sound ludicrous, but its true. We tend to see ourselves as needy. Do not misunderstand; we are complete; but we are also called to be growing in the knowledge of God. It is like we have been introduced to life in Christ, and in this introduction, we learn that we are now complete, but we also learn that now we are in Him, and there is whole new realm of getting to know Him in greater ways. It is only by and through His divine power that we have all we need to pertaining to life and godliness. True, we need to do certain things in this life, but we do so out of a sense of completeness, knowing we have what we need to do whatever we need to do! We know about life and we know about godliness; we know what we need to do in life and we know how to do it; and we know how to be godly in all of our doings because He lives in us. For example; as a follower of Christ, we know that we should respond to situations just as Christ would-and we can because He lives in us. We can be demonstrations of the fruit of the Spirit-love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Life is full of opportunities for us to be light and to demonstrate the very nature of our God. God has given us precious and magnificent promises-and they are not just nice talking points-they are real and they are for the here and now, making a difference. And here is the BIG deal: all that God has done and all that He has granted to us is for the purpose of us partaking of the divine nature. What? We human beings can partake of God’s divine nature? Yes! The old sinful nature we were born with can be replaced by a divine nature-is that not awesome? This does not mean we reach sinless perfection; but it does mean that we we have the power and the choice to live according to the Spirt and not sin. We sin when we choose to yield to our flesh instead of the Spirit. So-in Him, we are complete and sin does not rule over us.
Colossians 2:10 “For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily; and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power.”
Blessings, Buddy
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