seeing that His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence. For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust (2 Peter 1:5-8)
Reason.
Vision. Hope. These have been the topic of discussion but in what should we
hope? What should our vision be? What reason do we have to see or to hope?
Today’s passage addresses part of this. His divine power has granted to us everything
pertaining to life and godliness. In our knowledge of Him, we will find the
things we need for life and godliness.
Too often,
our hope breaks when “life and godliness” doesn’t come easy, or roadblocks get
in our way. But we were never promised that life and godliness would be easy. It’s
the “not easy” that seems to draw our focus. It’s like looking through binoculars
from the wrong end. What is close looks so far away and so fuzzy and
frightening. This is why we need a vision checkup on a regular basis.
What would godliness
look like? This is where we need to start because so often, we get it wrong. We
want to turn godliness and power outward, but that’s not God’s focus. What would
it look like to be loving, joyous, peace-filled, kind, good, faithful, gentle, or
self-controlled? Pick one and meditate on it. Take your vision to God and ask
Him for it. If you can’t think of any positive picture of your chosen term, take
that to God, too, and ask that He replace your broken vision with something better
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