Boldly claiming the ancient-fresh promises shared with us in the Scriptures can suddenly reveal a small glimpse of the infinitely large tapestry God is weaving with our lives. Our perspectives, in the process, may be completely flipped upside down, and our lives may start to make a little more sense.

Some of us (me!.. and maybe you too, sometimes?) have a really difficult time grasping what renewed life with God fully means. We genuinely pray our first prayer to step into salvation, and yet we still fall short. Constantly.

It’s just the consequence of what we’re born into: a fallen world. Our nature as humans is purely sinful.

Yes, we can do random acts of kindness and even run fully developed organizations to help find a cure for cancer, but unless we act purely for the glory of God, it isn’t good, it’s self-serving.

The following verse promises that when we start this new journey in Jesus we no longer have a sin nature. Accepting Jesus as Lord and Savior allows us to live in brand new nature we’ve never known before. We put on a divine nature, purely by God’s grace, so that we can fight off our sinful desires for the glory of God.

May you give glory to him for releasing you from yourself.

2 Peter 1:3-4

Today’s New International Version

His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.

New Living Translation

By his divine power, God has given us everything we need for living a godly life. We have received all of this by coming to know him, the one who called us to himself by means of his marvelous glory and excellence. And because of his glory and excellence, he has given us great and precious promises. These are the promises that enable you to share his divine nature and escape the world’s corruption caused by human desires.

The Message

Everything that goes into a life of pleasing God has been miraculously given to us by getting to know, personally and intimately, the One who invited us to God. The best invitation we ever received! We were also given absolutely terrific promises to pass on to you—your tickets to participation in the life of God after you turned your back on a world corrupted by lust.

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