If you are reading this, I would assume that my title has captured your attention. Nevertheless, I just present a question that we all, Christians, should pounder.
Are you, am I, growing in the grace and knowledge our Lord and Saviour Christ Jesus?
2 Peter 3:18 (KJV) But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.
In the 2 Peter 3:17, Peter under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, tells us “…to beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness”. After we are warned of being led by the wicked, we are told here that it would be of our own doing (“fall from your own stedfastness”). Therefore, if we find ourselves in error, we should understand that it was a lack of our own stedfastness in the living word of God. In verse 18, we are told how we are to deflect such an injury to ourselves. We are to toil for our spiritual growth, which is growing in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by reading the word of God. When we become aware of the grace God has so graciously showered on us, we then shall study the word of God, which alone should be the strongest desire in our lives. Bring it down to a humanistic stand-point; have you ever watched a talk-show about how someone rescued an individual from a severe mishap or even in a life or death situation? Well, the survivor usually has this innate desire to know who rescued them and gain a full understanding of the situation they were in. Saying that, if we are truly believers in the Lord Christ Jesus, then we ought to get to know Him and have an unmistakable understanding of what He has saved us from. The creation has the invitation to be friends with the Creator. Praise Ye the Lord!
I encourage you to read your Holy Bible, according to Scripture, you will defiantly grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. (Notice He must be your Lord before He is your Savior!)
Posted by Scribe on December 31, 2007 at 9:38 pm
Excellent, and no mild exhortation for spiritual growth! I’m proud of your entry honey…may you have a very Happy New Year!!;)
Posted by parchedsoul on December 31, 2007 at 9:56 pm
Thank you for stopping by and dropping an encourageing comment.
Happy New Years to you too!
Posted by eliza101 on April 13, 2008 at 6:22 am
Thank you for sending me this invitation. I love to read the love stories of other people. It’s good to know that God is not limited to one form of doing things. That he is diverse yet also extremely personal. I love to see how we works in individual stories and the bible is so jam packed with all kinds of interesting stories. God is sovereign and he knew you while you were in your mothers womb, as he fastened and created you. He knew how long it would be before he could enter into a covenant relationship with you and he knew who you would marry before you did. It’s amazing to see his glory revealed in this testimony.. praise be to God, whose glory fills the earth.