FAITH CAPSULE: With wisdom and knowledge comes increase in grace and peace.
2 Peter 1
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) God pronounced the first blessing and it was a blessing of multiplication. Clearly, God is the God of multiplication. He is the God that desires to see progress in the work of His hand. Also, He is not a stagnant God; He is a God of increase. Evidently increasing must be His character. Simon Peter’s greeting in the book of 2Peter 1:2 states, “Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.” (2 Peter1:2) Peter must have been 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 increase of knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord and Savior in us, there will be multiplication of grace and peace. Without the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord and Savior, one is bound to be stagnant and not increase in grace and peace. In these days of wearing challenges that keeps man from gaining the knowledge of God there is obvious need for wisdom and knowledge to increase in one’s life.
The importance of wisdom and knowledge: Isaiah 33:6 states, “Wisdom and knowledge will be the stability of your times, and the strength of salvation; the fear of the LORD is His treasure.” Spending time in the living word of God is gaining increase in the wisdom and knowledge which is the source of stability in the unstable times we are in the world. With stability comes increase of grace and peace of God. It is worth to desire gaining or finding the knowledge of God that brings forth increase in grace and peace in these days of challenges where all kinds of wickedness reign.
The Word of God also points out, “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. With wisdom and knowledge comes increase in grace and peace.
Prayer for today: Ask God for the increase in grace and peace. Also pray for His Word to have its place in your life.