God’s power, being divine, is without limit. Awesome!

He chooses to use that power to benefit me, helping me live in godliness:

“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” (2 Peter 1:3).

If it has to do with real life and with being godly, He has given it to me!

I get this by knowing Jesus.

I want to know Him. Better.

Now notice this from my Spanish Bible:

“As all things…have been given to us…ye also, putting forth all diligence…add…” (verses 3 and 5).

More clearly than the King James Version, this connects what He has done with what I ought to do.

…What He has called me to be…by His grace…through my temporary suffering…unto His eternal glory…by Jesus.

Sometimes I become discouraged by the lack of evidence of His work in my life.

But I believe He is working. So I claim this blessing for myself:

“But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you” (1 Peter 5:10).

Wow! God Himself is at work in me, making me that way!

I wonder what kind of perspective this put on the sufferings and persecutions being endured by the original recipients of Peter’s letter.