BREAKFAST WITH JESUS



Daily devotional

Pastor Stanley

3rd OCTOBER 2026

 

BE ON YOUR GUARD

Scripture — 2 Peter 3:17-18 (NIV)
"Therefore, dear friends, since you have been forewarned, be on your guard so that you may not be carried away by the error of the lawless and fall from your secure position. But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and forever! Amen."

 

This is Peter's last letter, and he ends like a watchman who has done his duty. He does not say "so that you may not lose your salvation." He says your secure position — the standing God has given you is secure. What he warns against is being carried away from the enjoyment and stability of what is already yours. A ship at anchor is safe in the harbour; the danger is not the anchor breaking but the cable being dragged by a current the crew refused to notice.

Notice the two movements of the verse: be on your guard, and grow. Guarding is defensive; growth is offensive. Peter knows that the best defence against error is not argument but knowledge. Believers are rarely carried away by error because they were out-argued; they are carried away because they stopped feeding on the Word and stopped growing in the knowledge of Jesus Christ. The error of the lawless — every twisting of grace into licence, every denial of His Lordship, every compromise with the spirit of the age — only gains a hearing in a soul that has gone slack.

And here is the grace in it: grow in the grace. Not grow by grace, as though you earn more of it, but grow in the awareness and enjoyment of the grace you already have. The knowledge of Christ is not information; it is revelation — the Spirit opening what is already written. A believer saturated in the grace of God is immune to error, because he has tasted the real thing and counterfeit no longer convinces him.

So, watch Beloved! Guard what you let in — the teaching, the media, the company, the conversation. And then do the more important thing: press in. Grow. The same Peter who wrote "be on your guard" died confident in the grace he had spent a lifetime knowing.

Grace to you, and peace.

Prayer

Father, in the name of Jesus, thank You that I have been forewarned, and that Your warning is not a threat but an act of love. Keep me awake and watchful, that I may not be carried away by the error of the lawless, nor drift from the secure position You have given me in Christ Jesus. Give me a holy appetite for Your Word and a stubborn refusal of every counterfeit. Holy Spirit, open the deep things of Christ to me daily, that I may grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ — to whom be glory both now and forever. Amen.

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