The Grands Letter

Dear Grands,

2 Peter 1:1-4, “Simon Peter, a bond-servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who have received a faith of the same kind as ours, by the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ:
2 Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord;
3 seeing that His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence.
4 For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust.”

Six days ago, I again became a great-grandfather to a newborn baby boy. What made it all-the-more exciting is that he was born on my very birth date, 22 July!

Now, think about how exciting it is to be a bond-servant of Jesus Christ, just as Simon Peter was –same faith, same righteousness, same God and Savior. Moreover, it is the same grace, same peace, same knowledge, and it is the same glory and same excellence!

Sharpen your focus: Simon Peter had no more of the saving grace of Jesus than you have,
provided you are a born-again believer in the LORD Jesus. When Jesus saves you, He
injects you with the same Holy Spirit that resided in, say, Billy Graham or Billy Sunday or one of a thousand missionaries over the past hundreds of years. He grants to you and to me the same grace He grants to everyone who confesses and turns away from sin and pledges his or her life to Jesus!

We may differ from each other in a thousand ways, but we’re all the same with Jesus. Do
you know Him? Have you turned away from sin, asked His forgiveness, and trusted Him
by faith? Peter says in the first verse above you can “receive a faith of the same kind as
ours.”
“Trust and obey; for there’s no other way
To be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey.”

You are in my daily prayers.

Heartily in Christ Jesus,

(Dado III)

Gene L. Jeffries, Th.D.
Springdale, Arkansas 72764
United States of America

“We never know that Christ is all we need until He becomes all that we have.” – Corrie ten Boom