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Morning and Evening

September 16, Morning

C. H. Spurgeon · Modern retelling

"Partakers of the divine nature." — 2 Peter 1:4 · KJV

To be a partaker of the divine nature is not, of course, to become God — that cannot be. The essence of Deity cannot be shared with the creature; between the creature and the Creator there must ever be a fixed gulf 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, for "he that loveth is born of God." God is truth; we become true, and love what is true. God is good, and by His grace He makes us good, so that we become the pure in heart who shall see God. More than this, we become partakers of the divine nature in a still higher sense — 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 that flows in the Head flows in the hand, and the same life that quickens Christ quickens His people, for "ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God." No, as if this were not enough, we are married to Christ. He has betrothed us to Himself in righteousness and 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 no more one with the vine than we are part of the Lord, our Savior and Redeemer! While we rejoice in this, let us remember that those made partakers of the divine nature will show their high and holy relationship in their dealings with others, and make it plain by their daily walk and conversation that they have escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. Oh, for more divine holiness of life!