The Divine Nature. (character)
Jesus is called the `Bread of God.`
`For the bread of God is He who comes down from heaven and gives His life to the world.` (John 6: 33)
`I am the bread of life.` (John 6: 48)
Now bread is bought to nourish those who are alive, but Christ the Bread of God imparts life eternal.
The physical bread we eat is from wheat grown in the ground from where our bodies are derived. The calcium, silicon, iodine, phosphates, etc in an organic form are packed into the wheat in order to build up our strength.
In like manner, if we are to become partakers of spiritual life and immortality we must eat the Bread of God, which is made up of -
- Righteousness, goodness, loving kindness, graciousness, perfectness, holiness, gentleness, merciful,
and such like which results in Godliness.
Partakers of the Divine nature.
`Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord,
as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by his own glory and virtue,
by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature....` (2 Peter 1: 2 - 4)
As we learn more about the Lord`s character and meditate upon the different aspects, we have been promised that we will receive the Lord`s very own character imparted into our spirits.
`For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the first-born among many brethren.` (Rom. 8: 29)
And one glad day we know that we shall see the Lord`s handiwork in our lives -
`Beloved, now we are children of God and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.
And everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself, just as he is pure.` (1 John 3: 2)
