DAY 768 - Come to Share God's Own Nature (請按此處收聼廣東話Cantonese podcast click here)

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                               Today's Reading: 2 Peter 1:1-11

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Bible Study

     There are three things Peter wants to tell us in this passage. 

Let's take a look at what Bishop N.T. Wright says (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._T._Wright ) :

      
      First, God has already given us everything we need: a starter kit, if you like, for all that we need to become (verse 3)…
      Second, he wants nothing less for us to share his own very nature (verse 4)…
     Third, God has indeed called and chosen those who find themselves following Jesus (verse 10). 

N.T. Wright. The Early Christian Letters for Everyone. Louisville,KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2011, p.102-103.

      Do you know God's has given you that starter kit to come to share God's own nature, to be His image-bearer and to be Christ-like?

Let's have a time to be still and give the Holy Spirit space to speak through the passage we have just read. Offer this time up to Jesus as you listen to him, while listening to "Gabriel's Oboe":  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmax47l2hLU

Spiritual Journal

    The title I heard from Jesus today is: Come to share God's own nature

    The message I got from Jesus today are the way for us to come to share God's own nature. What I got are two steps:
1. Step One: We need to be sure that we are being chosen to follow Jesus each day and need to try everything we got to follow Him.

2. Step Two: Check more often whether you have what Peter says from verse 5  to verse 9:

For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge,  and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.  For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.  For whoever lacks these qualities is so nearsighted that he is blind, having forgotten that he was cleansed from his former sins.

3. If you have those qualities, which means you are really sharing God's own nature because those are His nature.

You can't do that. You have to follow Jesus each day in order that you can live that out each day, not to do that each day. It is not "doing", but "being" with Jesus makes everything and you totally different. 

Dear Lord Jesus,
Lead us to follow you each day that we can live out your own nature.  In Jesus name we pray. Amen.

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