Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Morning Devotional For Saturday September 16, 2017 |
Morning Time: 2:09 AM PST
"Partakers of the divine nature." --2 Peter 1:4
To be a partaker of the divine nature is not, of course, to become God. That
cannot be. The essence of Deity is not to be participated in by the creature.
Between the creature and the Creator there must ever be a gulf fixed in respect
of essence; but as the first man Adam was made in the image of God, so we, by
the renewal of the Holy Spirit, are in a yet diviner sense made in the image of
the Most High, and are partakers of the divine nature. We are, by grace, made
like God. "God is love"; we become love--"He that loveth is born of God." God is
truth; we become true, and we love that which is true: God is good, and He makes
us good by His grace, so that we become the pure in heart who shall see God.
Moreover, we become partakers of the divine nature in even a higher sense than
this--in fact, in as lofty a sense as can be conceived, short of our being
absolutely divine. Do we not become members of the body of the divine person of
Christ? Yes, the same blood which flows in the head flows in the hand: and the
same life which quickens Christ quickens His people, for "Ye are dead, and your
life is hid with Christ in God." Nay, as if this were not enough, we are married
unto Christ. He hath betrothed us unto Himself in righteousness and in
faithfulness, and he who is joined unto the Lord is one spirit. Oh! marvellous
mystery! we look into it, but who shall understand it? One with Jesus--so one
with Him that the branch is not more one with the vine than we are a part of the
Lord, our Saviour, and our Redeemer! While we rejoice in this, let us remember
that those who are made partakers of the divine nature will manifest their high
and holy relationship in their intercourse with others, and make it evident by
their daily walk and conversation that they have escaped the corruption that is
in the world through lust. O for more divine holiness of life!
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