Getting to Know Jesus
1 Peter 1:2-8 (Voice) 2 I wish you a full measure of grace and peace as you grow in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. 3 His divine power has given us everything we need to experience life and to reflect God’s true nature through the knowledge of the One who called us by His glory and virtue. 4 Through these things, we have received God’s great and valuable promises, so we might escape the corruption of worldly desires and share in the divine nature. 5 To achieve this, you will need to add virtue to your faith, and then knowledge to your virtue; 6 to knowledge, add discipline; to discipline, add endurance; to endurance, add godliness; 7 to godliness, add affection for others as sisters and brothers; and to affection, at last, add love. 8 For if you possess these traits and multiply them, then you will never be ineffective or unproductive in your relationship with our Lord Jesus the Anointed;
Today, we will continue on yesterday’s theme of allowing God to work through us. You have heard the story many times of couples that live together for years. As time passes, they take on each other’s attitudes and characteristics. They even get to the point that they can finish each other’s sentences. As we spend time with our Savior and Lord, Jesus Christ, we do the same thing. We start to take on His characteristics of grace, godliness, affection, and His love for others. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to be able to finish God’s sentences? We may never get to that point, but we can become more like Him every day, if we will just commit to spending time with Him and meditating on His Word. After You have talked to Him, allow plenty of time for Him to talk to You. He has a lot to tell you and He has an unending stream of love that He wants to lavish on you. Be still, wait on Him to speak, and really, really listen. When just knowing about Him isn’t enough and you get to the point of wanting to know HIM, your attitude toward others and your outlook on life will begin to change for the better.
Post 9/14
As I think about it….I remember guys like Abraham…Methuselah…Enoch….who lived for SO long… and I wonder if they ever ‘got there’ in the spiritual growth climb?! Can we possibly ‘get there’ in 70 or 80 years?! Guess it’s not for us to wonder….but to just live day by day in the Word and in the Spirit. He sets a mark high for us….that of Jesus….and amazingly, He is sculpting off the excess clay of flesh and shaping us to be more like Him! Amazing! Amazing love…how can it be!
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