Jesus Provides All Helps That We may Be Partakers of the Divine Nature ㅡ
“According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.”
(2 Peter 1:3, 4, 10, 11)
Here is our life assurance policy [2 Peter 1:10]. Here we have the directions laid down as to how we shall secure the life that measures with the life of God....
The religion of Jesus Christ makes us better men and better women.... Christ came to our world to reshape the deformed character of humanity.
It was a very crooked character. God wants us to be His sons and His daughters.
He wants us, during the hours of probation here, to be fitted up with all these graces that He has presented “according as his divine power hath given unto us all things.”
Nothing is withheld that pertains unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him that hath called us to glory and virtue.
Then the rich promise is that we shall be partakers of the divine nature.
This means everything to us, to be a partaker of the divine nature.
We may be pressed sore with temptations, but we may overcome, because Christ has brought moral power within our reach.
Everything that pertains to godliness, everything that pertains to the salvation of the human soul, is to be placed within the reach of every human being upon the face of the earth.
There is no excuse for one of us to falter and fail in any respect in the work of overcoming.
(Christ Triumphant 206)
일본에 주재원으로 23년 살다온 친구가 12월 초에 일본으로 여행을 갔다가 어느 선술집 벽에 있는 낙서를 사진으로 찍어서 번역해준 건데 웃기면서도 의미가 심장합니다. 여러분과 공유하고 싶습니다. 두 줄 읽고 웃고, 두 줄 읽고 무릎 치고... 와, 뭔가 조금은 통달한 '꾼'이 끄적거린 거 같습니다. 사랑에 빠(溺)지는 18세 욕탕서 빠(溺)지는 81세 도로를 폭주하는 18세 도로를 역주행하는 81세 마음이 연약한 18세 온뼈가 연약한 81세 두근거림 안멈추는 18세 심장질환 안멈추는 81세 사랑에 숨막히는 18세 떡먹다 숨막히는 81세 수능점수 걱정하는 18세 '혈당/압'치 걱정의 81세 아직 아무것 모르는 18세 벌써 아무것 기억無 81세 자기를 찾겠다는 18세 모두가 자기를 찾고 있는 81세. ———-!———!—— 몸에좋고 인생에 좋은 피자 열판 보내드립니다. 계산은 제가 하겠습니다. 허리피자 가슴피자 어깨피자 얼굴피자 팔다리피자 주름살피자 내형편피자 내인생피자 내팔자피자 웃음꽃피자 오늘부턴 신년까지 늘 웃음과 행복한 일만 가득하세요.**
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