Knowledge of our Lord

Good Morning,

2 Peter 3:1-2, 18 (NIV)
Dear friends, this is now my second letter to you. I have written both of them as reminders to stimulate you to wholesome thinking. I want you to recall the words spoken in the past by the holy prophets and the command given by our Lord and Savior through your apostles.
But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and forever! Amen.

Just as Peter wrote his letters "as reminders" directly to those to whom it was sent, his letters are also the words given to him by God and, therefore, are reminders to us these many millennia later, as well.

We have in these verses (I strongly suggest reading all of 2 Peter 3) another direct reason that we ought to be reading and meditating on all of the Scripture we have available to us in the Bible. Peter says that we ought to "recall the words spoken in the past by the holy prophets and the command given by our Lord and Savior through your apostles." It's evident that these words he received from God made a large enough impression on him that he was sure to send them along to the believers of his time, which have also come to us.

Now, I don't really think that we NEED a reminder to read our Bibles more often and in greater detail, but it sure doesn't hurt. Sometimes we get sort of wound up in all of the "stuff" going on in our lives and we kind of put Bible reading a bit on the "back burner" so to speak. The problem with that is the fact that we very often never get to that "back burner" and the Bible doesn't get read that day. Then, the problem magnifies because that "back burner" gets further and further away which makes it easier and easier to ignore. So, maybe I'm wrong in saying we don't really need a reminder. Maybe we not only NEED a reminder, we probably need it often...perhaps much more often than we now get.

Finally, in verse 18 we read that we ought to "grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ." The growing in grace part we do by the way we live our lives and how we obey what God leads us to do and to say as His children. The growing in knowledge part is up to us, as well, in that we grow in that knowledge by our reading and studying and meditating on what God has had written for us in the Bible.

Plainly, it's easy to see that most of us, if not all of us, need to spend a bit more time reading Scripture. And, to those who DO actually spend a good amount of time each day with God by way of your reading, I would ask that you pray for the rest of us and exhort us into being better children and better students of what God has given us.

Love, peace, and blessings,

David