Know and Grow

Well, I wrapped up 2 Peter and he closed up with this: "Therefore, dear friends, since you already know this, be on your guard so that you may not be carried away by the error of lawless men and fall from your secure position.  But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ." (3:17-18)

There has been a theme throughout the Peters on increasing your knowledge of God and I have really enjoyed the reasons he gives us for doing so.  For the most part, he tends to give growing and resisting temptations as the main reasons. 

He states it in these passages once again.  We need to be on our guard so that we don't get pulled away from God by lawless men.  When put so eloquently it seems a little less threatening, but it is a true danger.  It is so easy to get sucked into the ways of the world.  Lawless men seem to have more fun, more things, more freedoms.  It is not hard to see why Peter tells us we have to be on our guard against it.

But he tells us to grow in the grace and knowledge of Jesus.  It is with this grace and knowledge that we can be more prepared to resist these temptations.

Know the Word and grow with God and it is easier to stay on the right track.  Pretty profound, huh?  :)  Not an eloquent or profound way to state it, but very important nonetheless.   A pretty central theme that I have gathered from going through 1 and 2 Peter in the past few months, though.