Archived Verse Of the Week

Peter's epistle glows with God's grace, and the final words of his letter tell us to grow in the grace of God that has been freely given to all who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. We are to bury our roots in the depths of God's Word. We are to reach for His grace's highest reaches, higher than the heavens and deeper than the ocean.

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However, the apostle Peter emphasizes that spiritual growth and advancement in the Christian life must be characterized by a continual maturation in grace and growing knowledge of our Lord. Growing in God's grace isn't about learning more and more about the Lord Jesus. Instead, it's about how our lives change day by day as we become more like Him in attitude and character, not a collection of facts and information about the Lord Jesus. This happens only to those who walk in Spirit and truth and submit to the Holy Spirit's leadership, moulding us day by day into His magnificent likeness as we die to self and live for Christ by grace.

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Spiritual maturity in our faith is the ongoing process of becoming more like the Lord Jesus. We need spiritual exercise to advance in the faith. To grow strong in the Lord and carry out the work that God has provided for us, we need the milk and meat of the Word.

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To begin, we are told to increase and expand our trust in God. We must allow our precious faith to mature and ripen, and we must hold firm in His promises and believe His Word. The Holy Spirit works within us to guide, govern, lead, and correct us as we grow in our dependence on the Lord, conforming us into His Son's image and likeness.

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As we die to ourselves and live for Him, He begins to eliminate every trace of our proud "self" and fleshly vanity and obey His perfect will. We will grow in every aspect of grace and virtue, trust and love, holiness and knowledge, wisdom and obedience as we walk in Spirit and truth and submit to the Spirit's leadership.

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In the final days of his life, Peter is urging all who have saving faith in Christ to strive earnestly for access to the same grace of God and intimate knowledge of Christ; in this closing verse of his second epistle, he says, "but to increase in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. As we confess our sins to our Father and keep our eyes on our Saviour - we are to pursue with zeal the intimate and personal relationship to which we have privileged access.

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We cannot develop in grace apart from the Lord Jesus Christ since our Christian lives will be spiritually stunted without Him. We can't do anything without Him. However, we are guaranteed that we can accomplish all things through Christ, who gives us strength, for He is able, and His grace is sufficient. Let us make this verse from Peter's epistle our focus and goal: "grow in grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ." "And may we "give Him the glory, both now and forever. Amen."

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May we all grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour, for it is by grace and faith that we are saved, and it is by grace and faith that we live our lives. One day, we will be able to enter into His wonderful presence, where we will see Him as He really is, become like Him, and spend all of eternity with Him.