2 Peter one grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of
God and of our Lord Jesus Christ Jesus our Lord as His divine power has given
us all things that pertain to life and godliness through the knowledge of Him
who called us by the glory and virtue I want to go back to a phrase in the
middle He has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness
through the knowledge He has given us all things that pertain to life and
godliness through knowledge I gave you an illustration a moment ago about the
fact that the Lord actually used a verse that the Lord lifts the veil after
somebody has believed faith actually enables God to lift the veil so we can
see and understand the Lord is so passionate about understanding because
He knows that His people perish for lack of knowledge that where there's
ignorance we can be sitting this close to the answer we've been crying out for
our whole life but blindness keeps us from being able access the thing that
he's provided or made available to us so revelation knowledge is what lifts the
veil to what is already true what he's already accomplished what he's already
put in my account that I have legal access to at any time that's what
revelation knowledge does so in this passage in Peter he says God has already
placed into your account everything you will ever need throughout all of
eternity everything that you will need as it pertains to life and godliness the
old testament definition of life especially in the book of Proverbs is
life was the answer to infirmity troubled heart and mind life was like
the surpassing greatness of God's own nature that would permeate a human being
and make them able to come into abundant life
it was life conquered disease life would enter into the very bone
where there was rottenness and the bones and there would life would come strength
would come so here the Lord is saying I have given to you already through what I
accomplished I've given to you everything you'll ever need as it
pertains to life and godliness but it's true knowledge one of the the weak links
in most of what I've been exposed to in charismatic Christianity which many
people use that as in a derogatory sense for me it's nothing but warm fuzzy
feelings but one of the weaknesses in the way we do life but is for many is
the absence of biblical meditation which is what takes knowledge brings it into a
person's life until it is not just something I intentionally ponder it has
become a source out of which I think and live and move it becomes internalized
until it becomes me and I become it biblical meditation is not the emptying
of the mind it is not getting rid of all these things and sitting there in the
midst of nothingness God says here dwell on this
in fact there's two words that there's probably many for the word meditation in
Scripture but there's two that I was looking at this morning that are both
fascinating one is in Psalms 37 where he just says I said it talks about the
beauty of the Lord and meditating in His temple and that word is actually also to
enquire which is a fascinating picture to me
picture this I'm meditating in the in in the temple of the world I'm meditating
my heart is George the Lord I'm meditating towards the Lord and that
word meditation also means to enquire so what it's saying is is biblical
meditation is a dialogue it's a dialogue it's uh it's oh God what do you what do
you mean by this what do you think about that is it possible that this could mean
this and there's this interaction there's
this is just this dialogue this this interaction it's like it's this
partnership of just saying God what about that I'm looking at your beauty it
blows me away and I'm considering this stuff about your nature and does does
that mean this does can can that be demonstrated in me here and there's this
dialogue and then there's a whole nother word for biblical meditation that means
to mutter it means to just kind of mumble to yourself it's it's just kind of
it's not a person that needs to be locked up it's a person who is it was
just pondering and and let me this is the language I put to it is that in
meditation you're considering God's nature you can sing this promise you're
considering what Jesus has done taking any truth you want you do all on that
you think on it and what you're doing by muttering is you're actually trying to
find your own language for what has been said until that thing becomes a part of
who you are