FAITH CAPSULE: The more the knowledge of God the more the increase of His grace and peace.
2 Peter 1
The first time God pronounced blessing, it was the blessing of multiplication. The Bible records it 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) Distinctly, God is a God of multiplication. Also, increase in multiple must be part of His character. It is safe to say that He is God who loves to see multiplication in all that is having a part in Him. Simon Peter, one of the apostles stated 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 which is rooted in the truth that multiplication is part of God? The prayer of Peter points to the truth that multiplied grace and peace is essential in the life of man. However, 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 wickedness reigns? The word of God simply points out in Proverbs, the source of gaining or finding the knowledge of God in 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 it becomes inhabited in man when there is understanding of the fear of God. Gaining the wisdom of God and finding His knowledge will become of any man who is able to understand the fear of the Lord. Proverbs 9:10 buttress, “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom…” The word of God is wisdom and it demands hearing and hearing for more understanding of the fear and knowledge of God to have a place in man.
From the time Abraham was called out of his family, through the time he got to the mount of “God shall provide” he did not demonstrate listening disability to the word of God. As a result, Abraham gained wisdom and understanding of God which added uncommon grace and peace of God in every step to obtaining the promise of God.
Prayer for today: Ask God to deliver and preserve you from the forces which denies man from gaining understand in the word of God.