Enter by the exceeding great promises which God has made to us that we may be partakers of the Divine Nature …

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The Divine Nature is built in us through trials and experiences of our faith. Its builder is the Holy Spirit, who as the master of our experience builds this tower of spiritual maturity in any devoted and diligent believer who is willing to concede and yield to His gentle hand.

It is a building project not within the scope or power of man’s intelligence, religion or philosophies. God is its architect, Christ is the supervisor, just as he is the author and finisher of our faith.

Through experience, both bitter and sweet, we learn to bow to His guidance and Nature and allow the Spirit to nurture it into godliness and true holiness so that it rules over the will of our own soul and spirit.

Our unholy and weak nature can be refurbished when we, with patience, allow God’s makeover to transform us into a completely new creation. It is when we submit ourselves to this rebuilding and renewal process, so finely detailed in the apostle Peter’s second letter, that the promise of “old things are passed away, all things are become new” 2 Cor 5:17 is formed and actualized in a believer’s life, even in this world.

The pinnacle, the ultimate, the bell tower if you will, of this spiritual house is divine love. Each layer, each course and block is laid with the mortar of god’s grace, each facet of its construction stands in contrast, for all the angels and all spiritually perceptible people, against Nimrod’s Tower of Confusion (Babel), as a tower of love and holiness.

Each level rests squarely upon the succeeding attributes of divine nature one after the other, until the perfect nature of God becomes a solid living part of the ‘inner man’. By faith we have them added; they are living because we have believed in that ‘exceeding great promise’ that God can embed Divine love within our soul when we are ready and willing to receive the Holy Ghost, deny ourself and yield to The Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost and their glorious, miraculous powers of conversion. Who can deny that the word in 1 Peter is an exceeding great promise, one to excite us into higher faith, and that God wants the faithful believer to be ‘perfected’ in love?

The first level mentioned is Virtue, followed in order by knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness and brotherly kindness. the whole being capped off with the bright gilding of divine love.

On these pages of ‘Divine nature’ are offered insights and analysis of each of the layers of the Tower of Love which can be built in us by God when we desire to adhere closely to the voice of the Spirit and the Word of God.

God desires that we will be filled with His Spirit and Word and will have built in us, even in a perfect and orderly fashion, this whole construction of love, until the whole is complete and we are walking and partaking of His Divine Nature in love and power.