Read 2 Peter 1:4-5
If we appropriate the promises in the Bible, then we can share in God’s nature. The world will have no draw on us. The true riches of this world are not the riches we can buy with money but the riches found in His Word. Before we become aware that we are children of God, we are a product of our parents and share their nature. Once we surrender our lives to Jesus we can have his nature and eventually be more like him than our parents. Paul told the Romans in Acts 17:26-29 that God made everyone from one blood and predetermined their appointments and their scope of influence. He strategically planned their lives so that when they sought for Him they could find Him. Since we are the offspring of God, we can have the nature of God which comes from Him and not our own making. We do not have to carry the curses of our parents or their sins. Besides this, we have been given faith which is moral conviction of the truthfulness of God. Faith is the reliance on Christ for salvation and the assurance of everything the Bible teaches. Once we have settled it in our mind that the Bible is the truth and we stand on everything it says, then we will go on to virtue which is excellence. This will exhibit itself in what all that we do and say. Next comes knowledge. This is not just man’s knowledge, but God’s knowledge. Solomon became the most wise king because God gave him that ability. With his wisdom he started observing the world around him and saw that everything on the earth exemplified an attribute of God and there was much to know about God through what we have come to call “science”. The closer we get to God the more we will be aware of a spiritual world paralleling ours. It will become more obvious as this world becomes less “blingy” in our eyes.
Lord, open our spiritual eyes to your nature and your world. Let us press in to know you and to take on your nature.
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