A thinking today of 2nd Peter chapter 1 verse 4. 2nd Peter chapter 1 verse 4.
We looked at verse 3 last time. And verse 3 ends with, by His own glory and
goodness. Then verse 4 it says, through these He has given us His very great and
precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the Divine nature,
having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires. I guess we
got to work this verse backwards a little bit to understand it really
clearly. Where it says, corruption in the world caused by evil desires, we're
talking about the things that men want, the things that men do that do not honor
God, that are in contrast to the goodness of God. God has a plan for each one of
us and He's trying to make us out to be the best version of ourselves, far above
anything we could hope, dream, or imagine. But the world settles in at a place of
corruption and that all arises out of their evil desires. Remember that God had
called us by His own glory and goodness and through these now He has given us
this absolutely wonderful set of promises of what He's going to do in us,
what He's going to accomplish in the long run. And even that all of the bad
things that we are going through will work out for our good eventually, if only
in that we will be able to comfort others with the comfort that we are
comforted. Basically, through these great promises we can participate in the
Divine nature. God is so good to make us over when we're willing into His image,
into the image of Christ and the image of God. Praise the Lord, we're on our way.