September 16 Morning Devotional | In the Image of God | Morning and Evening by Spurgeon

Morning, September 16 | “Partakers of the divine nature.” —2 Peter 1:4 (NASB)

This Morning's Scripture Reading: 2 Peter 1:2-4 (NASB)

Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord; seeing that His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence. For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust.

Devotional Transcript:

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 — “everyone who loves is born of God.” (1 John 4:7,8 NASB) 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 “you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.” (Colossians 3:3) Nay, as if this were not enough, we are married unto Christ.
He has betrothed us unto himself in righteousness and in faithfulness, and he who is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.

Oh, marvelous 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 Savior, 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 interactions 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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