2nd Book of Peter, chapter 1, verses 1-4.
1 Simeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ,
To those who have obtained a faith of equal standing with ours by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:
2 May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.
3 His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence, 4 by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire.
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What we know about Jesus and what He has done for us gives us access to divine power. Our sin once separated us from God, but now we can come boldly before His throne because our guilt has been removed. (Hebrews 4:16). Many people hide from God’s presence because they know they have sinned, but they do not know they have been pardoned.
For millennia, the law of gravity kept man from being able to fly. But the discovery of other laws, WHICH ALWAYS EXISTED, made it so three hundred people can climb into a metal tube, sit in a reclining seat, and travel at 600 mph, reaching an altitude of 30,000 feet, while drinking a Diet Coke and reading a magazine. Mankind became aware of one of those laws in 1738. It’s called “Bernoulli’s Principle,” and it took almost 200 years to learn how to apply it and make commercial air travel possible.
Peter tells us that God has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, and His promises, or spiritual laws, that enable us to partake of His divine nature. We obtain them through the knowledge of Jesus Christ, and it doesn’t have to take 200 years. You can start your journey today by believing in Christ and what He did for you when He shed His blood for your sin and the sin of the whole world. After that, it is learning the application of that knowledge. It means becoming His disciple, not just a spectator.