Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. (2 Peter 1:4 KJV)
It is the will of God that we partake, take part, share and inherit His Nature. In essence God wants us to be like Him on the Earth.
Giving the stack reality of Man’s far and long fallen nature, becoming like God (now) is perceived unattainable only because Man could not comprehend or assimilate the verity of God’s truth about this goal and His commitment towards it. Beloved, God wants us (Yes, you and I) to share His Nature here on Earth. God is so disrupt about our not being like Him. We must become acquainted with this truth and attune ourselves with it. God’s will is that we partake, participate, share and be joined to His Nature.
After Man fell, God expressed His “disgust” at the appalling and horrendous “new” nature of Man. “God saw that human evil was out of control. People thought evil, imagined evil—evil, evil, evil from morning to night. God was sorry that he had made the human race in the first place; it broke his heart. (Gen 6:5-6 MSG) Notice, Man had become so different and distant from the original model, that it “broke His heart”. How pained God became because of Man’s failing. “As far as God was concerned, the Earth had become a sewer; there was violence everywhere. God took one look and saw how bad it was, everyone corrupt and corrupting—life itself corrupt to the core. (Gen. 6:11-12 MSG) God’s investment in Man on the Earth has become eroded, without worth or value to Him but resolved to recover and restore Man. It is God’s quest to have Man restored and reinstated that made God become Man to (again) make Man become God. This is quite intriguing and enthralling. God was fixed to regain and reclaim Man. What a blessing.
Consider what the Bible says; “It makes good sense that the God who got everything started and keeps everything going now completes the work by making the Salvation Pioneer perfect through suffering as he leads all these people to glory. Since the One who saves and those who are saved have a common origin, Jesus doesn’t hesitate to treat them as family, saying, I’ll tell my good friends, my brothers and sisters, all I know about you; I’ll join them in worship and praise to you. Again, he puts himself in the same family circle when he says, ‘Even I live by placing my trust in God. And yet again, I’m here with the children God gave me. Since the children are made of flesh and blood, it’s logical that the Savior took on flesh and blood in order to rescue them by his death. By embracing death, taking it into himself, he destroyed the Devil’s hold on death and freed all who cower through life, scared to death of death. It’s obvious, of course, that he didn’t go to all this trouble for angels. It was for people like us, children of Abraham. That’s why he had to enter into every detail of human life. Then, when he came before God as high priest to get rid of the people’s sins, he would have already experienced it all himself—all the pain, all the testing—and would be able to help where help was needed. (Heb. 2:10-18 MSG)
Beloved, the exhilarating reality is that God wants you and me to regain the nature we had of Him. The natural Man we know or now are was not the “Natural Man” of God but fallen and corrupt specie “unknown” to God about whom God is pungent and disrupt.
We cannot afford to be found or remain as such despite the great reprieves He has made possible, that by them you may escape from the immoral freedom that is in the world because of disreputable desire, and become sharers of the divine nature. (2 Peter 1:4 AMP)