Living a Godly Life...
As we know Jesus better, his divine power gives us everything we need for living a godly life.
2 Peter 1:3, NLT
So, i'm subscribed to KLOVE's Encouraging Word newsletter. If you don't know about it, you can go to KLOVE.com and on the main page you can subscribe. Anyway.. so I think I'm going to start writing on what I read from it somewhat daily. I just think it would be a good habit to get myself into. Usually when I actually do get myself to sit down and read the bible, I don't know where to start, so I just randomly pick somewhere. But that doesn't work very well most of the time. So anyway..
So, this verse is what I need to keep reading over and over. I'm trying to begin to ask questions about the things I read, and not just go, "yea, that makes sense" to everything. So how do you know Jesus better? Well, I think if you're a christian, then that means you're praying, being a witness, showing compassion, and also reading and studying His word. It's alot more than that, yea, but it's a start for now. So, what happens when we spend this time and walk with Jesus to get to know Him more? "His divine power gives us..." Hold on.. Diving Power? What's that? Power granted to Himself as God...? It seems like that's the power God has, because whatever it is, when Jesus came to earth, he set aside his divine power to take the form of a human being, with all its limitations. Okay, so Divine Power is God's Power. God's Power gives us everything we need for living a godly life. Got it. So, I have to be walking with Jesus, because that's how you get to know someone better. Right? Spending time with them, talking (or with God, praying, of course), and learning more about them. So walk with Chist, and live by Christ, and His power will give me all that I need (not want) to live a godly life. So.. what do you think? That's how I came to understand that passage.
Man.. what a great way to start the day.
1 comment:
HeHe... "Diving Power"
Anything that helps motivate you to get in the Word is useful.
I think a part of how we are granted this power is the way that getting to know someone makes you more like them. We start to pick up on their habits, their traits, their mannerisms. The same is true of Christ. As we know him better, we are more aware of our need, our weakness. We learn that our weakness gives glory to God because He can show off His strength. We learn to trust God, who did not spare His own Son but gave him up for all of us, and who therefore has no reason to hold back any other good gifts (to be given that which is most precious in the Universe... how could anything less be harder for God). God's divine power is, however, manifest in small and almost invisible ways. Enduring when it seems impossible to do so. Hanging on to God (or being held on to) when everything else collapses. When trials come, your weakness is revealed and your need for this divine power is revealed. Perhaps another important part of the battle is accepting that which is given?
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