GRACE AND PEACE
2 Peter 1

The first time that God pronounced blessing was the blessing of multiplication. The Bible records that after God had created sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters abounded, according to their kind and every winged bird according to its kind, “…God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”” (Genesis 1:22-23) Manifestly, God is the God of multiplication. He is the God that desires to see progress in the work of His hand. Also, as a result of growing, He cannot be a stagnant God; increasing in multiple must be part of His character. Simon Peter, one of the apostles, greeted in his second letter, “Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.” (2 Peter1:2) Could it be that Peter was praying with understanding that was rooted in the fact that multiplication is a significant part of God? The prayer of Peter points to the truth that grace and peace also needs to be multiplied in us in the knowledge of God and of Jesus. With the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord and Savior, there will be multiplication of grace and peace. Without the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord and Savior, man is bound to be stagnant and not increase in grace and peace. Have you thought about gaining or finding the knowledge of God? Would you not want to increase in grace and peace in these days of challenges where all kinds of wickedness reign? The Word of God points out simply in Proverbs the source of gaining or finding the knowledge of God. Proverbs 2:5, “Then you will understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.” Knowledge of the Lord is not inherited from parents, but rather it becomes inhabited when it is founded in the understanding of the fear of God. The fear of God comes in the beginning of wisdom. “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom…” (Proverb 9:10) The Word of God is the wisdom that we need to incline our ear to. When we begin to increase in the hearing and hearing of the Word of God, understanding the fear of God will undoubtedly increase and it will lead to gaining the knowledge of God. Through the journey of Abraham from the time he was called out of his family until he got to the mount of God shall provide, there was no evidence of listening disability to the Word of God. As a result, he knew God and grace and peace could not be separated from every step he took; it only increased in him.

Prayer for today: Deliver me from every agent of listening disability so that Your Word shall have its way in my life.