Today, I am reading and commenting on 2 Peter 1-3.

Every year when I read this, my first thought is to write about verses five to nine in chapter one:

For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love.  For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But whoever does not have them is nearsighted and blind, forgetting that they have been cleansed from their past sins.

However, as I read today, I came to where Peter writes “For we did not tell you cleverly devised stories…”  then he goes on to tell them that false prophets and false teachers who will use fabricated stories to gain followers and exploit people.  To me, what Peter writes here is both a warning against falling for such false prophets and false teachers and a warning against becoming one of them.  Peter describes them as bold and arrogant.  He also tells us that they despise authority and follow corrupt desire.  In their arrogance they heap abuse on spiritual beings, beings which even angels delivering a message from God do not abuse.  So, while Christ gives us power over such beings, we must remember that it is His power, not our own, and use it with humility and only in such a manner as brings glory to Christ.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.