Chapter 260—Multiplied Blessings
Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of
God, and of Jesus our Lord, 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 1:2, 3
.
In the first chapter of the second epistle of Peter you will find the promise
that grace and peace will be multiplied unto you, if you will “add to your
faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; and to knowledge temperance; and to
temperance patience; and to patience godliness; and to godliness brotherly
kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity” (
2 Peter 1:5-7
). These virtues
are wonderful treasures....
Shall we not strive to use to the very best of our ability the little time that
is left in this life, adding grace to grace, power to power, making it manifest
that we have a source of power in the heavens above? Christ says: “All
power is given unto me in heaven and in earth” (
Matthew 28:18
). What is
this power given to Him for? For us. He desires us to realize that He has
returned to heaven as our Elder Brother and that the measureless power given
Him has been placed at our disposal....
We are to represent Christ in all that we say and do. We are to live His
life. The principles by which He was guided are to shape our course of action
toward those with whom we are associated. When we are securely anchored
in Christ, we have a power that no human being can take from us.
The unstudied, unconscious influence of a holy life is the most convincing
sermon that can be given in favor of Christianity. Argument, even when
unanswerable, may provoke only opposition; but a godly example has a
power that it is impossible wholly to resist.
Through His Son, God has revealed the excellency to which man is
capable of attaining. And before the world God is developing us as living
witnesses of what man may become through the grace of Christ....
What an honor He confers upon us, in urging us to be holy in our sphere,
as the Father is holy in His sphere. And through His power we are able
to do this; for He declares, “All power is given unto me in heaven and in
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