No Standing Still

[Daily Devotional]

No Standing Still 

     To them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the
righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ: grace and peace be
multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord.
2 Peter 1:1, 2.  

     What a grand theme this is for contemplation--the righteousness of
God and our Saviour Jesus Christ! Contemplating Christ and His
righteousness leaves no room for self-righteousness, for the glorifying
of self. In this chapter there is no standstill. There is continual
advancement in every stage in the knowledge of Christ. Through the
knowledge of Christ is life eternal. In His prayer Jesus says, "This is
life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus
Christ, whom thou hast sent" (John 17:3). In God we are to glory. . . .
"But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom,
and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: that, according
as it is written. He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord" (1 Cor.
1:30, 31). . . .  

     We have been called to the knowledge of Christ, and that is to the
knowledge of glory and virtue. It is a knowledge of the perfection of
the divine character, manifested to us in Jesus Christ, that opens up to
us communion with God. It is by the great and precious promises that we
are to become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the
corruption that is in the world through lust.  

     What possibilities are opened up to the youth who lay hold of the
divine assurances of God's Word! Scarcely can the human mind comprehend
what is the breadth and depth and height of the spiritual attainments
that can be reached by becoming partakers of the divine nature. The
human agent who yields obedience to God, Who becomes a partaker of the
divine nature, finds pleasure in keeping the commandments of God, for he
is one with God; he holds as vital a relation with God as does the Son
to the Father.  

     What privileges and blessings are granted to those who have
obtained like precious faith with the disciples of Christ! Nothing is
withheld from them.  

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