i) Knowledge that is productive - Os Hilman

ii) Moses the mighty mediator - C.E.Wigg

Knowledge that is productive

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. 2 Peter 1:8

Productivity is a term all workplace believers can relate to. It is the by-product of what we desire from our work. Without productivity, we do not make sales, we do not deliver goods, and we do not achieve our goals. There are things in our work lives that can creep in making us unproductive. The same is true in our walk with God. The apostle Peter tells us that we can become knowledgeable of Jesus but fail to be effective and productive in our relationship with Him. We are a society that has great knowledge, but our comparable scale of productivity from that knowledge is extremely weighted to the knowledge side. The apostle Peter tells us there is a solution to this dilemma.

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, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, 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 (2 Peter 1:5-8).

Is your Christian experience filled with knowledge, but little power? Is there staleness in your walk with God? Is there unrest in your soul? It may be due to a need to develop character that only the Holy Spirit can develop out of an obedient heart. Ask the Lord today to add these qualities to your faith so that you can be productive as a soldier of Jesus Christ.

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Moses the mighty mediator

Charles E. Wigg

The time had now come for Moses and Aaron to go into the presence of the proud but mighty Pharaoh. When they delivered the message that God had given Moses, what God had said would happen to him took place. God is the Almighty, and he knew beforehand how Pharaoh would react. However it was He that had raised the proud Monarch to this position of power, and we might wonder why it was that He had done so. He was to use this proud Egyptian as a showpiece, God, the Almighty God, knew what He was doing. So upon hearing the message Pharaoh answered proudly and roughly, that he would take no notice of the warning that God had sent to him. He boasted that he had no knowledge of Jehovah, he had his own gods, and he would trust them to protect him. However the time was to come when he (the mighty Pharaoh), would tremble before the true and Mighty God of Israel.

When he looked on the lifeless form of his eldest son, the heir to his throne, he knew then that God was not to be trifled with. And when at last he saw those great walls of water come crashing in on him and his hand-picked army, when he came under the wrath of the Almighty, he knew that Jehovah was indeed God. As he suffers in the flames of hell today, he and all who are there, know that God is God, and they rue the fact that they were ever so foolish as to refuse His word, and to refuse to humble themselves before Him, and thus accept His mercy. We may rest assured that amongst those who are today suffering in the flames of Hell, there is not one unbeliever, all who are there, believe what God has said, but it is too late for them. If you could talk to that Pharaoh today, he would freely admit of his folly, that he should even dare to reject the word of God, or to oppose Him in His mighty acts.

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