Completely Supplied through Knowing God
Many believers want an abundance of God's grace and peace, but they are unwilling to get to know God better through Bible study and prayer. To enjoy the privileges God offers us freely, we must have "the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.''
Our lives are blessed whenever the Lord adds any of His blessings to our experience. Yet, there are times when we sense a need for God's blessings to be multiplied to us. Well, God desires to multiply His working toward us. "Grace and peace be multiplied to you." Drop after drop of refreshing water may encourage the thirsty soul. However, our hearts' unmet need may be for fountains of living water. God loves to pour forth into our lives His 'much more' abundant grace and the gift of righteousness. "I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly" (John 10:10). God's grace (His undeserved resource for living) is available in multiplied measures. God's peace (His heaven-sent spiritual tranquility) can be partaken of in magnified portions. The process for partaking of these multiplied provisions simply involves growing in knowing our Lord. "Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord."
We have already been given everything needed for abundant Christian living. "His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness." This is not to say that we are aware of what is ours, or that we are experiencing all that is ours. Nonetheless, God has already given us every spiritual provision needed to live as He desires ("all things that pertain to life") and to grow in Christ-likeness as He wills ("all things that pertain to...godliness"). The process for accessing these comprehensive resources involves getting to know the Lord better. "His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him."It is by grace that we initially come to know the Lord. As we get to know Him better, grace is then multiplied into our lives. When we first met the Lord, He made available to us everything we needed to live as He intended. As we grow in knowing Him, we access experientially more and more of what He has already made available to us in Christ.
Dear God of all grace, I praise You for Your bountiful grace. Often I have underestimated Your goodness to me. What a staggering thought that You have already given me in Christ abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness. May I grow in knowing You, that all of Your glorious grace might be realized day by day, in Jesus name, Amen.
