"Day Of Remembrance" - 3

"But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins." (2 Peter 1:9) Yesterday I received an email with a link to a scientific discovery of how the sea could have parted for the children of Israel to pass through. This theory was based upon the notion, that the wind moving across a 'shallow' portion of the sea at a speed of at least 65 mph, and over a period of several hours, then it could have happened. Well; without getting into this 'speculation' (raised up against the Knowledge of God), let me just go right to the 'meet' of this matter. This is the world doing what we have a tendency to do ourselves; and that is to not give God the full Glory. It is one thing for the world to do it, because they do not know God, or the power of His very breath; but, we on the other hand, do not have that excuse. Yet, this is exactly what happens to us as we progress though this life: we explain away the workings of God in our lives. And, what, pray tell, do I mean by that? Well, let's look at the word 'virtue' for an instance: we can come to a point in our lives, where we think that any virtue we have is because of our doing; as if, it is because of our own righteousness, or well doing, that we have any virtue. However, the virtue that we have, is in line with the godliness we have: It is all from Him. And what, pray tell, is wrong with thinking that we have any virtue? For one, we don't; but if we think that we do, then when we fall, we begin to question the power of God in our lives. When instead, we should be aware, that if and when we have fallen, it is not because we lack God's power in our lives, but that we have rested upon our own power, and not His. He has given us everything we need for virtue and godliness; yet when we are lacking, it is because we have been moving in our own strength, and not His. When Peter said, "But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off", he is saying that we do not see the whole picture; that it is not our doing which produces virtue and godliness, and that we have forgotten that He purged us from our old sins. In other words, we have forgotten the miracle of His Saving Grace; because anything short of that, is 'shallow'. "Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the Everlasting Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ. Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the Present Truth. Yea, I think it 'meet', as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance; knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shown me. Moreover I will endeavor that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance." (2 Peter 1:10-15)