2Peter 1:2 Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, 3 as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, 4 by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

Based on verse 2, by what means are grace and peace multiplied to you?

His divine power has given us “all” things that pertain to life and godliness.  When Scripture speaks of divine power, I think of the Holy Spirit.  The Holy Spirit desires to develop your knowledge of God and our Lord and Savior Jesus so that you will know all that is available to you and escape the corruption that is in the world through lust.

I know this is a fact because of what it says in the verse.  All things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue.  Notice it says through the knowledge of Him (meaning Jesus), not you, not a method, not some other thing.  The Holy Spirit is constantly seeking to bring us into deeper fellowship with Jesus and the Father.  His greatest yearning is to bring us into unity with God.

How well do you know Jesus?

It’s easy to get so caught up in looking for methods, keys, and secret ways to get something you need that you fail to look to Jesus.   

It says everything we need pertaining to life and godliness.  What is meant by life here?  What do you believe the word life includes?

Is it possible that the word life includes everything equated with life as we know it?  Your spiritual, mental, and physical well-being, financial provision, relationships, etc.  If this is the case, there must be places in the word of God that offer us promises in such areas.  There are such promises!  And all the promises of God are yes and amen in Christ!

If I were to go to your bank and deposit $100,000.00 in it and then tell you that you have that much money available to you, but you refuse to believe me, you will never access it.  The same would be true if I discovered a cure for cancer and you desperately needed it, and I offered it freely. Unless you believe you will not benefit from it.

We already have everything that pertains to life and godliness!  Christ, in a way, is our bank in these matters.  He holds our account and keeps it full.  It’s all there in Him!  He offers it to us freely, but we have to believe Him to be able to access it, and we will struggle to believe Him if we are not getting to know Him as we should.  By growing in our knowing Him, we have access to everything!

We even are made partakers of His divine nature.  New Creations are heaven-born spiritual citizens of the kingdom.  In Christ, we were made something that before did not exist.  In Christ, we partake of His divine nature, but our souls must be caught up to what that means.  This is why renewing the mind is of such great importance.

I encourage you to consider more deeply what it means to be a partaker of the divine nature and have the divine power at work in you.  The more your soul gets washed in the truth of it, the more transformed you will live.