2 Peter 1:5-7

Growing in the Knowledge of God

5 So make every effort to apply the benefits of these promises to your life. Then your faith will produce a life of moral excellence. A life of moral excellence leads to knowing God better.  6 Knowing God leads to self-control. Self-control leads to patient endurance, and patient endurance leads to godliness. 7 Godliness leads to love for other Christians, and finally you will grow to have genuine love for everyone. (NLT)

 

Knowing God leads to self-control. In truth you cannot control your life because there are just too many variables that you cannot control. The more you try to control your life or even those around you the more out of control things will become. God has given you a free-will and that gives you the freedom to do two things – accept Him or reject Him. By accepting Him you need to allow Him to lead you into self-control and as He leads you into self-control that will then lead you into patient endurance and patient endurance leads to godliness. He will lead you through a progression into that which He created you to be. You cannot get there through your own power; you must trust God and His leading. Ultimately God leads you into unconditional love to love as He loves.

This is a walk with God that leads you into a progression of things, a walk that is a process, a walk that leads you to God's ultimate goal and a walk that is most satisfying. It is not always an easy walk -- if it was then everyone would be doing it. God has called you to this walk with Him because He knows that you can make it all the way with Him.

 

Engage the Present – Create the Future – With Jesus Christ

2 Peter 1:5

Growing in the Knowledge of God

5 So make every effort to apply the benefits of these promises to your life. Then your faith will produce a life of moral excellence. A life of moral excellence leads to knowing God better.  (NLT)

 

Apply this promise to your life daily. God has given you something to do and that is to take His promise and plant it in your life and let it produce fruit in your life. You begin with faith in Christ, as your faith grows it will produce moral excellence. What is moral excellence? Moral excellence is doing that which is right in Gods eyes, standing for what God stands for, doing the things that Christ did and doing them consistently. You are to imitate your heavenly Father as Jesus did, not grudgingly, but from the heart. A life of moral excellence leads to knowing God better.

 

Engage the Present – Create the Future – With Jesus Christ

2 Peter 1:1-2

This letter is from Simon Peter, a slave and apostle of Jesus Christ.

I am writing to all of you who share the same precious faith we have, faith given to us by Jesus Christ, our God and Savior, who makes us right with God.

2 May God bless you with his special favor and wonderful peace as you come to know Jesus, our God and Lord, better and better. (NLT)

 

Your faith is given to you by Jesus Christ. You have all the faith you need within you. If you feel that your faith is small it is not. Jesus has given you faith that can move mountains all you need to do is believe and trust that He has. God has given us a free-will and He allows us to make choices. You can choose to have strong faith in Christ or you can chose to doubt, it’s your choice. But realize this  -- God has granted you special favor, wonderful peace and the ability to know Jesus on a personal level. You share the same faith that Peter had in Christ. You can know Jesus just as intimately and powerfully as Peter and the other Apostles did. Put your faith in Jesus and get to know Him better and better every day.

 

Engage the Present – Create the Future – With Jesus Christ

2 Peter 1:3-4

Growing in the Knowledge of God

3 As we know Jesus better, his divine power gives us everything we need for living a godly life. He has called us to receive his own glory and goodness! 4 And by that same mighty power, he has given us all of his rich and wonderful promises. He has promised that you will escape the decadence all around you caused by evil desires and that you will share in his divine nature. (NLT)

 

Your blessings or happiness depends a lot on you. The more you know Jesus and the closer you get to Jesus the happier you become. Because it stops being about you and it becomes more about Jesus and what He has done for you and what He is doing through you. He called you to receive His glory and goodness. He called you to receive His mighty power to accomplish His will. He has given you everything you need to succeed all you have to do is to except what He has given you and use it to His glory. He has called you to be a part of His ministry and to share in His divine nature.

 

Engage the Present – Create the Future – With Jesus Christ