Knowledge of Our Lord

His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue (2 Peter 1:3).

We live in an era when religious studies are gaining popularity in universities, sociologists are interested in measuring and understanding religious life, and daily newspapers are expanding coverage of religion. Peter does not refer to those kinds of knowledge.

Peter refers not to information about religion, not cross-cultural seminars about differences between “faith” and “isms,” but to genuine, honest, personal, solid, life-changing, dynamic eye-openness to the true God Himself, “the knowledge of Him.” Such knowledge is more like opening a gift than attending a lecture. God wraps the gift and offers it; we open it, dazzled by its beauty and warmed by its love.

What’s at the center of this knowledge? That Christ has come to fulfill God’s promises. How do we grow in this knowledge? By a prayer that says, “Of all the important and exciting things to learn in my short life, from baseball statistics to computer protocol, I want most of all, and at the center of all, to know Jesus Christ, God’s Son, my Savior. Dear God, lead me ever to Him.”

An intimate knowledge of Christ gives believers power for an abundant life and growth.

Unless otherwise noted, Scripture taken from the New King James Version®, NKJV © 1982 by Thomas Nelson.
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