This morning I was up before the sun (and yes the sun was out today in Portland) to go to worship and bible study. (And had to scrape the windows on my car again.) Anyway, here are a couple takeaways I had from this morning.
2 Peter 1:3 says, "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."
The speaker this morning went into quite a lengthy description of what Peter is saying here. However, the thing that struck me was when the speaker said that we have been given everything we need to live a Godly Christian life. By His power, God has given us all we need to live a life for Him. Here is an analogy: generally speaking a baby is born with everything it needs to live (brain, heart, lungs, mouth, etc.). In the same way, when we were saved and received the Holy Spirit, we gained everything we need to live our new life in Christ (the Holy Spirit, a new self, and a new nature [if we choose it]).
2 Peter 1:4 says, "For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust."
We become partakers of the divine nature. This divine nature is our new nature in Christ. The problem is, our old sinful nature is still with us and is at odds with our new divine nature. Living by our new nature is not a given. We must choose to participate in it. We must choose to live according to our new nature and not our old nature. Do you truly participate in your new divine nature? Or is your life just a string of isolated, shallow emotional experiences?
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