--Wisdom / Virtue ~~

--GREAT AND PRECIOUS PROMSES~~

--There is a wonderful promise in Peter's second letter to the people of God. After guaranteeing God's sufficiency to provide everything we need to live in a godly manner throughout our lives, Peter noted that the knowledge that God provides also contains "exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust" (2 Peter 1:4).

Please don't miss this. Those "exceeding great and precious promises" were designed to give us a way to escape the horrible corruption that exists in the world that normally attacks us through our natural desires. What a wonderful gift! That new thing that God gives us is "created according to God in true righteousness and holiness" (Ephesians 4:24).

Even the Old Testament prophets longed after the coming change in which God would "put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and so them" (Ezekiel 36:27).

Everything God has caused to be recorded, everything He has done, has been to make possible a life of victory for the twice-born over the awful efforts of the Enemy. Paul told the Corinthian Church, "Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God" (2 Corinthians 7:1).

Given the Promises of God, can we do less?
--ICR/HMM
[Friend, it is recommended, to have a God's Promises Book next to your computer. What a blessing! ]