{"id":1205,"date":"2008-12-17T10:26:01","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T15:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/?p=1205"},"modified":"2008-12-17T10:26:01","modified_gmt":"2008-12-17T15:26:01","slug":"know-him-and-receive-glory-and-goodness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/know-him-and-receive-glory-and-goodness\/","title":{"rendered":"Know Him and receive glory and goodness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Scripture 2 Peter: 3<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As we know Jesus better, his divine power gives us everything we need for living a godly life. He has called us to receive his own glory and goodness!<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211;New Living Translation<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Observation:<\/strong> To live a godly life, it is imperative to get to know Jesus better. Then he will give me all I need through his divine power. He wants me\/ all of us to experience this glory and goodness.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Application:<\/strong> I can read and study other books and blogs about Jesus. I can try my best to do good and nice things. But the way to receive his divine power is to <strong>know <\/strong>Him and to grow that relationship.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0That can only be done through studying the Word directly and praying\/ listening to him. And as I know him better, he will share with me the divine gifts I need to live a truly godly life, transforming from faith to a life of moral excellence, to knowing God better, to self-control, to patient endurance, to godliness and love for other Christians and then love for all. (This from verses 5-8)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prayer:<\/strong> Keep me in your word, Lord. Do not let me stray. Show my next reading plan or make it obvious that I should do last year&#8217;s plan again. I want to grow in you. I want to grow in the ways you have set for me. Thank you for calling me to receive your glory and goodness&#8230; what an incredible gift! Guide me in receiving and honoring that gift.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/momflower.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-207\" title=\"momflower\" src=\"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/momflower.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"80\" height=\"40\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture 2 Peter: 3 As we know Jesus better, his divine power gives us everything we need for living a godly life. He has called us to receive his own glory and goodness! &#8211;New Living Translation Observation: To live a godly life, it is imperative to get to know Jesus better. Then he will give [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-soap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1206,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions\/1206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}