[Manna - March 25]
Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own steadfastness.
But grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. 2 Peter 3:17,18
We grow in knowledge as we take note of the
promises of God, and by faith apply them to ourselves,
and seek to discern in our lives the fulfilment of those
promises; we grow in grace simultaneously, for unless
each item of knowledge be received into a good and
honest heart, and bring forth its measure of obedience
and righteousness (grace), we will not be prepared
for the next step of knowledge, and would thus be
stopped, or possibly turned back.
And as a loss of
knowledge would mean a measurable loss of grace,
so also a loss of grace would mean a corresponding
loss of knowledge—going into darkness, the promises
of the Lord's Word becoming more and more
dim and obscured, in proportion as our goodness or
grace would be lost in worldliness or sin. Z.'03-70 R3156:4