Grow in Grace by Larry Yarrington
7 Therefore, dear friends, since you already know this (that people distort scripture), be on your guard so that you may not be carried away by the error of lawless men and fall from your secure position. 18 But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and forever! Amen. 2 Peter 3:17-18 There are those who parse scripture, by taking it out of context, to fit their own desire for what they want it to say. I do that to some extent when I write these devotionals. But, these devotionals are not intended to be an explanation of scripture as much as how the passage hit me personally. My intention is not to build theology. It is to see what the Lord wants me personally to see and grow from. Yet, I must be careful that I don't so distort scripture as to make my personal use of it, untrue. At other times people just have a grand idea about what is right and wrong and superimpose this idea on scripture and, thereby, distort its meaning in