LifeLink Devotions for Monday, April 28, 2025

Last Friday in our study of the life of Stephen in the book of Acts we discovered that he was a man full of power. I shared with you the first two ways that the Bible says the power of God is at work in us. There are ten total.  Let’s look at the next two power principles.

3.  God’s power is at work to facilitate participation in the divine nature and escape evil desires.

2 Peter 1:3-4  says it this way. “His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.   Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.”

When we turn to Christ in faith, believing Who He is and what He has accomplished on our behalf, we are immediately indwelt by the Spirit of God. The power He brings is sufficient to provide us everything we need in life, including the ability to live righteously according to the Divine nature that lives in us. We no longer need to strive for excellence to earn God’s presence, we embrace God’s presence which produces excellence. That’s what Peter calls living according to the great and precious promises.

That leads us to power principle number four, where the Apostle Peter gives us another way in which the power of God is at work.

4.  To know we are secure in Christ.

It is very difficult to find security in this world. Financial markets fluctuate. Political powers rise and fall. Meaningful employment may be hard to find. Relationships are fickle. If only there was a way to feel secure.

There is. We can know that we know that we know with never a doubt that we are secure in the power of God. 1 Peter 1:5  says, “Through faith we are shielded by God’s power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.” The rescue from all of the insecurity we experience is available by putting confidence in the promise of an unchanging and all-powerful God who fulfills every promise.

Someday, maybe soon, Jesus is returning, and we will be hoisted out of all this mess and dwell in eternal glory forever. That’s guaranteed.  We are being kept by God’s power, not our own, and certainly not by our circumstances. We have confidence in what God is doing in us, not in what is happening around us. He is shielding us from the insecurities that come from looking at the inconsistencies in the world by keeping our hearts and minds fixed on Who He is. He cannot fail. His power is keeping us!

God’s power is at work in us to turn us into representatives of His divine nature by escaping the corruption of the world. His power is keeping us secure because we no longer trust in what we can do for ourselves or what the world can do for us or to us. We are secure. May that truth lift you up to new heights of living today and provide you with the attitude adjustments that are necessary.

Pastor John