He Dwells With Those Who Are Humbled

2 Pet. 3:15 reveals the patience of our Lord, of course in the salvation of souls with His eternal life, as He Himself continues to deliver us through and from all the evils, all the errors of evil, and all hindrances of time (Rom. 8:31-39).

God had to give to Paul the wisdom that he himself needed and could not obtain without the only continual Source—Christ and His grace and truth (Jhn. 1:14). Notice, His grace given to us freely must precede His knowledge, otherwise it is not His knowledge—not His knowing—and He, as One in the Godhead, knows all things. (Is. 46:10; Acts 15:18; Jhn. 13:19; 14:29).

It is He Himself who inhabits eternity, in Is. 57:15, and it is He Himself who dwells in an unreachable height, a height of Holiness, and with Himself, He will dwell with those who are humbled, with those who have realized that they can never meet their need on their own.

The supply that God Himself alone has given us once (Heb. 10:10) is the same continual supply that will continue to meet our need for eternity. (See Phil. 4:19; 1 Jhn. 5:11; Jhn. 15:1-5).

Things that seem to be hard for us to understand in God’s Word, God will give understanding to us in His time. And His time, the Eternal One must wait to be gracious to us (Is. 30:18), while His plan, which is designed to humble us does its work.

Nothing is too hard for God Himself. The question is never to us, “Is anything too hard for you?”—the answer is, "Is anything too hard for God?"—No! but it will return to you at God’s appointed time-the time that His work has done its job—to humble us with the reality that we can’t do even one thing right (righteously) without His grace that always and emphatically precedes what only He knows (Gen. 18: 14; 1 Jhn. 3:20-21).

God’s basic, foundational ingredient for growth is the need that only He can meet. For growth and for Godly service, which has to do with true worship, the unchanging and immutable principle is that now and forever His grace will always precede His knowledge—the knowledge that we will never come to the end of His matchless love for us for all eternity. Eph. 3:19-21

But grow in the grace and in the knowledge of our Lord, and Savior Jesus Christ. TO HIM BE GLORY BOTH NOW AND TO THE ETERNITY OF ETERNITY. (2 Pet. 3:18 = Eph. Chaps.1-3)