Make Every Effort To Add

To Your Faith Goodness

Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ,

To those who through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ have received a faith as precious as ours: Grace and peace be yours in abundance through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.

His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.

For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love. For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But whoever does not have them is nearsighted and blind, forgetting that they have been cleansed from their past sins.

2 Peter 1:1-9

Our children know that our words are good, and they can trust us. It’s a little thing, and we keep our promises to our children. Promises are the glue of relationships. They lay a foundation of love and trust.

That may be what Peter meant when he wrote God’s promises to enable us to “participate in the divine nature.” When we take God at His word, trusting what He says about Himself and about us, we encounter His heart toward us. It gives Him an opportunity to reveal His faithfulness as we rest in what He says is true. We are thankful Scripture brims with His promises, and they are concrete reminders that “his compassions never fail. They are new every morning.”

God’s Word to us reveals His heart toward us.

Our Daily Bread – January 21, 2018