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By Pastor Glenn Pease
In may of 1883 strange noises were heard over a hundred miles away coming from the island of Krakatoa between Java and Sumatra.
Some Dutchmen chartered a boat and visited the island to investigate.
They heard rumbling deep in the earth, and saw geysers of steam shooting up here and there.
They left the island, and three months later this island paradise blew sky high.
In the words of Lewis Dunnington it was, "The most awful, cataclysmic contortion of the earth's crust that the world had ever experienced."
Cracks opened up again and again, and ocean water poured into Molten white hot lava until 14 square miles of the island was hurled into the sky.
The Royal Society of London said, "It made the mightiest noise which, so far as we can ascertain, has ever been heard on the globe.
It was distinctly heard 3000 miles away four hours later.
Here is a mini example of what Peter says in 3:10 will happen on the Day of the Lord when the heavens will pass away with a loud noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fire.
It was a mini example of judgement day, but a fantastic demonstration of destructive power.
It created a title wave 50 feet high tearing across the Indian Ocean at speeds up to three hundred fifty miles per hour.
It destroyed 163 villages with all their inhabitants.
It reached Cape Horn in 17 hours, and on the way it destroyed 5000 ships.
One Dutch ship was carried 2 miles inland.
Dust from the pulverized island rose 20 miles into the air, and it was carried around the globe.
Six months later the sky over St. Louis, Missouri was green and yellow from that dust.
Scientists went to visit the island in 1884, and they found no life at all.
Two years later in 1886 they returned, and they found ferns, four varieties of flowers, two kinds of grass, butterflies, ants, caterpillars, morning glories, mango and sugar plum.
Birds which carried the seeds of all this vegetation were there in abundance.
It was again a paradise, and again a mini example of God's plan after the world is destroyed.
Peter says in 3:13 that we look for a new heaven and new earth.
The events on the island of Krakatoa illustrate the events of all history from paradise lost to paradise regained.
It illustrates the power of life over the power of death even in nature.
Nature, of course, is God's plan, and we see this same fact in the spiritual realm.
Sin blew man's paradise and harmonious relationship to God all to pieces.
But as the birds were God's agents in nature to restore life to the island, so the Dove of the Holy Spirit brings new life into the desert of man's soul.
When men respond and drink of the water of life that Jesus offers, the desert blooms as a rose.
The whole point is that the power of life, good, and godliness will always triumph over the power of death, evil and wickedness, provided we are in the right relationship to the source of this power.
Peter says in verse 3 that God's divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness through the knowledge of Him who called us to His glory and virtue.
Everything necessary for the abundant and godly life is potentially ours through the knowledge of God.
Knowledge of God is the means by which we gain the power of God.
From beginning to end the Christian life is a matter of the power of God working in us.
By believing in Christ and receiving Him as Savior we are given, says John, the power to become the children of God.
The Christian life from that point is a matter of the energy of God flowing through us.
The English word energy is taken from the Greek word frequently used by Paul.
In Gal.
2:8 he writes, "He who energized in Peter for the mission to the circumcised energized in me also for the Gentiles."
The Greek is translated in the New Testament as worketh, wrought mightily, or operated.
The idea is God's energy working in man's life to empower them for service.
Here are a few verses in which we see this word being used.
Col. 1:29 says, "I labor, striving according to His energy which energizes in me in power."
Eph.
3:7 says, "The gift of the grace of God which was given to me according to the energy of His Power."
Phil.
3:13 says, "It is God who energizes in you both to will and to energize for His pleasure."
I Cor.
12:6 says, "There are diversities of effects of energy; but it is the same God who energizes all in all."
There are more, but these make it clear that Jesus meant what He said when He claimed His disciples could do nothing without Him.
He meant nothing that is a part of the spiritual life, for He is the source of energy.
To be without Christ is to be without power.
On the other hand, Paul said, "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me."
All things is what Peter is saying also.
God has granted us all things by His power that pertain to life and godliness.
Peter does not hesitate to speak boldly about the power of God, the provision of God, and the purpose of God, in this verse.
Let's consider now-
GOD'S PROVISION.
That which God makes available through His power is what we are looking at.
It is frustrating to read passages like this superficially because they seem to be so far beyond our experience.
Peter says that God has granted us all things that pertain to life and godliness.
This being so, we should have no lack, but be perfect Christians.
If God has provided everything, what can be lacking?
But he goes on to tell them that they must labor diligently to add all kinds of things to their faith in order to be effective and fruitful.
So they both have everything, and yet have a great deal yet to acquire.
It is obvious then that we are dealing here with the difference between potential and actual.
In this verse Peter is saying that God's provision is complete.
There is absolutely nothing that you need in order to be the best possible Christian that is not available.
The potential for everyone of us to be all that we can be in God's plan is a reality.
Any lack and any failure to attain this ideal is due to inadequacy on our part, and not God's lack of provision.
The raw material is available, but what is needed is the labor to put it together.
Markham captured this idea in poetry.
We men of earth have here the stuff
Of Paradise-we have enough!
We need no other stones to build
The stairs into the Unfulfilled;
No other ivory for the doors;
No other marble for the floors;
No other cedar for the beam,
And dome of man's immortal dream.
Here on the path of everyday;
Here on the common human way,
Is all the busy God would take
To build a heaven, to mold and make
New Edens.
Ours the task sublime
To build Eternity in Time.
The poet has expressed the very thought of Peter.
We do not need anything more, for all is provided to accomplish the ideal.
All that is necessary now is to build.
The problem is never supply, but labor.
We must cooperate with God, or all His provision will be of no benefit.
In other words, even the almighty power of God will not make the Christian life easy, for it costs to make real in life what God has made potential by His grace.
God demands our cooperation before His provision can become actualized in experience.
A man purchased a bouquet of American Beauty Roses, and he exclaimed, "See what God wrought."
The florist said, "Wait a minute."
He disappeared into the green house, and he came back holding a plain common rose, and he said, "See what God wrought."
Then he took the bouquet of beautiful roses and said, "See what God and man wrought."
The florist was right.
Some of the finest things in nature God will not do without man's cooperation.
Hybrids with all their superior quality cannot be raised by depending on the laws of nature alone.
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