“May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge
of God and of Jesus our Lord.” 2 Peter
1:2 (ESV)
These words are a prayer of blessing written by the Apostle
Peter in the second letter he wrote to believers. What a great difference our lives become when
we come to know God the Father and His Son Jesus Christ. “This is a
strengthened form of “knowledge” implying a larger, more thorough, and intimate
knowledge. The Christian’s precious faith is built on knowing the truth about
God (cf. v. 3). Christianity is not a mystical religion, but is based in
objective, historical, revealed, rational truth from God and intended to be
understood and believed. The deeper and wider that knowledge of the Lord, the more
“grace and peace” are multiplied1." When we accept Jesus as our Savior,
God brings us into His family and begins to reveal himself to us. He wants us to know Him and to keep learning
more and more about Him. Our verse today tells us what happens when we learn to
know our Lord better. We read that we receive grace and peace in abundance
through knowing Him. It will be true as we learn to know Him better. What a
benefit is promised to us here.
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[1] John F. MacArthur Jr., The MacArthur Study Bible: New American
Standard Bible., (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 2006), 2 Pe 1:2.
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