SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 8/6/2017
10:04 PM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-2 “This
Faith Involves God’s Promises”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: 2 Peter 1:4
Message of the
verses: “4 For by these He has
granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may
become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in
the world by lust.”
Dr. Wiersbe points out that “Nature determines appetite. The pig wants slop and the dog will even eat
its own vomit (2 Peter 2:22), but the sheep desires green pastures. Nature also determines behavior. An eagle flies
because it has an eagle’s nature and a dolphin swims because that is the nature
of a dolphin. Nature determines environment; squirrels climb trees,
moles burrow underground, and trout swim in the water. Nature also determines association: lions travel in prides, sheep in flocks, and fish in
schools.”
Since all true believers have God, in the Person of the
Holy Spirit living in them we then should have an appetite for that which is pure
and what is holy. Also since God lives in us then our life should be similar to
how God is. “Our behavior ought to be like that of the Father, and we ought to
live in the kind of ‘spiritual environment’ that is suited to our nature. We ought to associate with that which is true
to our nature (see 2 Cor. 6:14ff). The
only normal, fruit-bearing like for the child of God is a godly life.”
“Dr. Wiersbe concludes “Because we possess this divine
nature, we have ‘completely escaped’ the defilement and decay of this present
evil world. If we feed the new nature
the nourishment of the Word, then we will have little interest in the garbage
of the world. But if we ‘make provision
for the flesh’ (Rom. 13:14), our sinful nature will lust after the ‘old sins’
(2 Peter 1:9) and we will disobey God.
Godly living is the result of cultivating the new nature within.”
8/6/2017 10:21 PM
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