Grace and Peace Multiplied

One of the benefits of having money in a bank account is to have a percentage added for interest.  It is a basic way to have money "working" for you while at the same time is secure and insured.  While adding to wealth is desirable, multiplying wealth is even more appealing.  Why add when you can multiply and earn faster?

During the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus mentioned how people tend to worry about their lives, what they will eat, drink or wear.  Because born again Christians have God as our Father in heaven, we ought not to worry like others do about an uncertain future because God will supply all our needs.  Matthew 6:33 said, "But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you."  All the things we need are found in God who has created us, given us eternal life and all things which pertain to life and godliness.  It is in knowing God and the promises of His word that build and strengthen our faith.

In seeking God we discover all our needs are abundantly met and added to us:  did you know it is possible to have grace and peace multiplied to us?  This is revealed in the introduction of 2 Peter 1:1-4:  "Simon Peter, a bondservant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained like precious faith with us by the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ: ² grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, ³ as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, ⁴ by which have been given to us 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."  As our knowledge of God in whom we trust expands, grace and peace are multiplied to us in the knowledge of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ.  Our faith is not an airy-fairy longing but rests in the reality of God's existence, the facts of who He is and all His exceedingly great and precious promises.

As our knowledge of God as revealed in scripture and by our relationship with Him, God's grace and peace abounds.  God's divine power has given us everything we need for this life and all eternity, for we are made partakers of the divine nature:  the Holy Spirit who regenerates and indwells us.  The people of this world have plenty to eat, drink and wear and are not satisfied, yet we have "escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust."  Lust leaves us dissatisfied with what we have and always thirsts for more, better and new.  Our precious faith which believes Gods great and precious promises sustains us, for our hope is in our God who multiplies grace and peace unto us.  We have multiplied to us what the world cannot earn or obtain by any effort of the flesh.  How privileged and blessed we are to know God and to be known by Him!