God has unlimited power.

上帝有无限的能力。 

[God’s] divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life. 2 Peter 1:3

上帝的神能已将一切关乎生命和虔敬的事赐给我们。-彼得后书1章3节

In a field on the English countryside, G. K. Chesterton stood up from where he had been sitting and exploded with laughter. His outburst was so sudden and so loud that the cows could not take their eyes off him.

在英国乡间的一片田野中，原本在作画的柴斯特顿（G. K. Chesterton）忽然站起来捧腹大笑。他突如其来的笑声，让田间的母牛都忍不住盯着他瞧。

Just minutes before, the Christian writer and apologist had been miserable. That afternoon he had been wandering the hills, sketching pictures on brown paper using colored chalks. But he was dismayed to discover he had no white chalk, which he considered to be essential to his artwork. Soon, though, he began to laugh when he realized that the ground beneath him was porous limestone—the earth’s equivalent of white chalk. He broke off a piece and resumed drawing.

原来在几分钟前，这位基督徒作家兼护教学家柴斯特顿还感到苦恼。那个下午，他在山丘漫步，用彩色粉笔在棕色纸上写生。当他正打算用白色粉笔作画时，却因为找不到而感到懊恼。不久，他反倒哑然失笑，因为他发现脚下所踏之地正是多孔石灰岩，也就是天然的白色粉笔。于是，他就轻轻剥下一块继续作画。

Like Chesterton, who realized he “was sitting on an immense warehouse of white chalk,” believers have God’s unlimited spiritual resources within reach at all times. “His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him” (2 Peter 1:3).

如同柴斯特顿突然发现，他正“坐拥白色粉笔的大仓库”一样，信徒也享有上帝无穷的属灵资源。正如圣经说：“上帝的神能已将一切关乎生命和虔敬的事赐给我们，皆因我们认识那用自己荣耀和美德召我们的主。” (彼得后书1章3节)

Maybe you feel you are lacking some important element necessary for godliness such as faith, grace, or wisdom. If you know Christ, you have everything you need and more. Through Jesus, you have access to the Father—the one who graciously provides believers with all things.

或许你觉得自己缺乏属灵的重要元素，如信心、恩典或智慧。如果你认识基督，你已经拥有这一切，甚至超过你所求所想。因为藉着耶稣，你就能来到天父的面前，祂是那位丰丰富富供应信徒一切的上帝。

Dear Lord, forgive me for overlooking Your power and trying to live in my own strength. I can’t do it. Thank You for providing everything I need.

亲爱的主，求祢赦免我轻忽祢的大能，

并尝试凡事都靠自己，但我知道自己办不到，
谢谢祢，因为我一切所需祢都丰富供应。

2 Peter 1:1-10NIV

1 Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ,

To those who through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ have received a faith as precious as ours:

2 Grace and peace be yours in abundance through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.

3 His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. 4 Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.

5 For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; 6 and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; 7 and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love. 8 For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 But whoever does not have them is nearsighted and blind,forgetting that they have been cleansed from their past sins.

10 Therefore, my brothers and sisters,[a] make every effort to confirm your calling and election. For if you do these things, you will never stumble,

整理：于姊妹