While technology expands exponentially, the kind of knowledge we urgently need to survive ebbs and wanes.
by John Ross Schroeder
Many passages in the Bible make it clear that knowledge of and about God the Father and Jesus Christ is intensely important. For example, the apostle Peter emphasizes this particular theme in his second New Testament letter.
The introduction to Simon Peter's second general epistle states: "Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus Christ our Lord" (2 Peter 1:2). The next passage talks about "the knowledge of Him who called us" (verse 3). Other Scriptures show us that it is the Father who does the calling of the firstfruits into the Church (John 6:44,65), "as many as the Lord our God will call" (Acts 2:39).
Adding true knowledge should be a spiritual pursuit of every Christian (2 Peter 1:5). If we grow substantially in the qualities of faith, virtue, knowledge, self-control, perseverance, godliness, brotherly kindness and love, then we will be "neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ" (verse 8).
