How To Have Peace In Perilous Times

“Grace and peace be yours in abundance through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.”
(2 Peter 1:2 NIV 1984)

If you want grace and peace in abundance, then this is how the Bible says we get it.  We get grace and peace through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. 

How then do we receive the knowledge of God?

We get to know God the same way we would get to know anyone else.  We get to know God by spending time with Him in prayer, by talking to God, and by asking Him to talk to us. We get to know God by hanging out with Him.  We get to know God by reading His Word. We get to know God by asking Him about Himself.

In Exodus 33:11 the Bible tells us that the LORD spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend.

And in verse 13 we read that Moses asked God:  “Now therefore, I pray, if I have found grace in Your sight, show me now Your way, that I may know You and that I may find grace in Your sight.”  

I’m paying that for me, and I’m also praying that for you.

I’ll finish with this.  As the expression goes, this is last but not least.

The Apostle Peter said in 2 Peter 1:3-4,

“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.”

Do you really want to know God? You will need to know His Word. We can get everything we need--we can get all things that pertain unto life and godliness--through the knowledge of Him. And how do we receive the knowledge of Him? We claim the exceeding great and precious promises that He has given us in His Word. 

Margot Armer