In 2 Peter 1, which we are reading today in our Spoken Word Bible Reading Plan, Peter greets the believers to whom he is writing this letter with these words in verse 2:
2 May grace (God’s favor) and peace (which is perfect well-being, all necessary good, all spiritual prosperity, and freedom from fears and agitating passions and moral conflicts) be multiplied to you in [the full, personal, precise, and correct] knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.
Notice that all of these wonderful blessings that Peter is speaking of here are found, and multiplied, "in" the knowledge of Him. This word means that the knowledge of Him is the intermediary, or the channel, through which all of these multiplies blessings will come. "Knowledge" is the Greek word "epignosis", which we have covered many times on this blog. Very simply, it refers to the cumulative (layer upon layer) understanding of Who Jesus is, what He has, what He can do, and what that means to us! So, if YOU desire to walk in those multiplied blessings, there is NO shortcut! You MUST begin, and continue, to grow in the knowledge of Him! This is why Paul made it his 'determined purpose" to know Him more and more, every single day! You CAN do the same, IF you choose to do so , and then choose to follow through! Are YOU ready? Here is a song by Hillsong Worship to encourage you! It's called "Heart Like Heaven":
Shalom in Him!
