In 2 Peter 1:3 we realize the importance for the believer to realize that our “resources” match our “objectives”. I suppose that we have all experienced in this life that the lack of our “resources” can directly affect our ability to meet our “objectives”, but Peter guarantees that this will never be the case for the Christian! God has seen fit to make certain that what God has called us to will be supplied 100% by him alone. Peter’s purpose of letting his readers know this is so that Satan and his false teachers would not be able to move the believer from their true resources on to that which would never be able to accomplish the objective. Satan has long employed the tactic of distraction to get the Christian away from God’s given objective of knowing God and being transformed into His image.
Peter’s statement as to the objectives of the Christian life is found in verses 2-3 and starts with the phrase in verse 2 where he wishes “Grace and peace to be multiplied to you”. He then tells the believer the location of those great resources is found only in “the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.” Having given us, the source of Grace and peace Peter moves to the objects of these resources as they are to SUPPLY the essentials for the Christian. Which are revealed to the reader in verse 3:
The objectives of the Christian life? His divine power has given us ALL THINGS that pertain to two objectives:
LIFE: The essential objective of the Christian continues and will always be “To know God.” This is what we Christians should desire above everything else and ought to occupy our prayer life. This is the supreme objective of the Christian as Jesus said in John 17:3 “And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.”