Read: 2 Peter 3:14-18

Grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. (v. 18 NIV)

I’ve been urging you to become passionate about knowing Christ. Perhaps you’ve been wondering if it is even possible to know Christ more. So I want to spend a week focusing on the possibilities of knowing Christ better. We begin with the last words of the apostle Peter.

Not only is it possible to grow in our knowledge of Christ; Peter says it’s our duty. Here’s what John Calvin said about Peter’s words: “Keep moving, because the only way to persevere is to continually go forward and not stop and sit down in the middle of the journey.” Have we stopped and sat down? Have you become a parked Christian? Peter calls us to move, to grow in the grace of Christ.

What does that mean? If grace is God’s unearned love for sinners, how can we grow in that? Don’t we already have all of God’s grace? Charles Spurgeon said that Peter is talking about growing in our experience of grace. He compared grace to honey. You can know all about honey—what it looks like, how it is made, where you can get it. But all that is a far cry from dipping your finger into a pot of honey and then putting your finger in your mouth and actually tasting it. We don’t know grace until we reach out our empty hand and receive the grace of Christ by faith.

Prayer: Lord Jesus, help us to taste and see that you are good beyond our deserving. Amen.

Author: Stan Mast

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