Read: 2 Peter 1:1–10 | Bible in a Year: Job 38–40; Acts 16:1–21
[God’s] divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life. 2 Peter 1:3
In a field on the English countryside, G. K. Chesterton stood up
from where he had been sitting and exploded with laughter. His outburst
was so sudden and so loud that the cows could not take their eyes off
him.
Just minutes before, the Christian writer and apologist had been miserable. That afternoon he had been wandering the hills, sketching pictures on brown paper using colored chalks. But he was dismayed to discover he had no white chalk, which he considered to be essential to his artwork. Soon, though, he began to laugh when he realized that the ground beneath him was porous limestone—the earth’s equivalent of white chalk. He broke off a piece and resumed drawing.
Like Chesterton, who realized he “was sitting on an immense warehouse of white chalk,” believers have God’s unlimited spiritual resources within reach at all times. “His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him” (2 Peter 1:3).
Maybe you feel you are lacking some important element necessary for godliness such as faith, grace, or wisdom. If you know Christ, you have everything you need and more. Through Jesus, you have access to the Father—the one who graciously provides believers with all things.
Just minutes before, the Christian writer and apologist had been miserable. That afternoon he had been wandering the hills, sketching pictures on brown paper using colored chalks. But he was dismayed to discover he had no white chalk, which he considered to be essential to his artwork. Soon, though, he began to laugh when he realized that the ground beneath him was porous limestone—the earth’s equivalent of white chalk. He broke off a piece and resumed drawing.
Like Chesterton, who realized he “was sitting on an immense warehouse of white chalk,” believers have God’s unlimited spiritual resources within reach at all times. “His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him” (2 Peter 1:3).
Maybe you feel you are lacking some important element necessary for godliness such as faith, grace, or wisdom. If you know Christ, you have everything you need and more. Through Jesus, you have access to the Father—the one who graciously provides believers with all things.
Dear Lord, forgive me for overlooking Your power and trying to live in my own strength. I can’t do it. Thank You for providing everything I need.
God has unlimited power.
INSIGHT:
Today’s passage reminds us that it is God who provides the power
we need to live the Christian life (v. 3). One of the ways He does this
is by giving us the Holy Spirit. The characteristics we display—the
fruit of the indwelling Spirit—have strong implications for the way we
live (vv. 5–9; see Gal. 5:22–23). But whose fruit is it? It is the
Spirit’s. The Holy Spirit is the agent, the source, and the power that
produces that fruit.
Adapted from Live Free: A Fresh Look at the Fruit of the Spirit.
Adapted from Live Free: A Fresh Look at the Fruit of the Spirit.
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