Thurs.'s Devo - Partakers of His Divine Nature

Read 2 Pet. 1:1-4
Peter is praying for his fellow Christians under the power of the Holy Spirit which means this is what Jesus prays for us. He prays that we have an overabundance of peace and grace. We have been given the same power Jesus had to live a righteous life so that we might also live righteously. Which means that we have been given power to resist sin so that we don't HAVE to sin. Jesus made his power available to us if we appropriate it. We are called to glory and virtue. That glory we are called to is to be very apparent and virtue means we are to do everything with excellence, no matter how small or mundane the task. For we have been awesome promises in God's Word and if we apply them, then we will be "partakers of his divine nature" which I call living supernaturally. We have escaped the penalty of sin which is corruption. When John introduced Jesus he said, "Behold the Lamb of God, which takes away the sin of the world." He came to take sin away. Jesus healed a cripple man and told him to leave and sin no more. Romans 6 talks about how we should not continue in sin if we are saved because we are dead to sin and when we raised up out of baptism we were to live in newness of life. Our old man was crucified that sin in us might be destroyed, so that we would no longer serve sin but be free from sin. So maybe we should see ourselves as righteous instead of sinners and live in the grace Jesus died to give us.
Lord, it goes against our doctrine to think that we could live without sin, but it goes against your Word to think otherwise so help us to walk a life worthy of your name and remind us that the same spirit that raised Christ from the dead dwells in us.