6神圣的能力已将一切关于生命和敬虔的事注入我们里面。然而，这个注入，这个分赐，要求我们充分认识神。我们若没有经过过程，得著充分的认识，神圣的能力所栽种到我们里面的，似乎就归于徒然。神圣的能力在运行，但需要我们与这运行合作。许多基督徒对于神圣的能力所分赐给我们的东西一无所知。同样，许多人不知道我们需要经过过程，好得著充分的认识。我们需要受主训练，使我们经过过程，得著对呼召我们的那一位充分的认识。我在这些信息中的愿望，是要帮助你们经过这过程。以火车为例，我们可以说，我们都在一列火车上，这火车正通过一条通道，这通道就是对那呼召我们者深刻、透彻、经历上的认识。在三节彼得不是说到认识神，也不是说到认识父、子、灵；他乃是说到充分认识那呼召我们到祂的荣耀和美德的一位。这里彼得不是说神已呼召我们上天堂，甚至不是说祂已呼召我们到救赎或圣别。在本节彼得说，神呼召我们到祂自己的荣耀和美德。我们需要对此有充分的认识。我们不可满意于肤浅的认识。我们惟有藉著经过漫长的过程，才能认识那呼召我们到祂的荣耀和美德的一位。关于这点，我们该像游客搭慢车经过美丽的乡间。这样的游客喜欢缓缓前进，以饱览风景。同样，我们需要透彻、缓缓的看一章一至四节。你也许一再匆匆读过这些经文，而没有看见甚么。所以，我们读这些经文时，需要谨慎的看其中所包括的每件事。
6The divine power has infused us with all things pertaining to life and godliness. However, this infusion, this impartation, requires that we have the full knowledge of God. If we do not pass through the process to gain the full knowledge, it will seem that what the divine power has planted in us has been in vain. The divine power is operating, but there is the need for us to cooperate with this operation. Many Christians do not know anything about what the divine power has imparted to us. Likewise, many do not know that it is necessary for us to pass through the process to gain the full knowledge. There is the need for us to be trained by the Lord so that we may pass through the process to gain the full knowledge of the One who has called us. My desire in these messages is to help you pass through this process. We may use the illustration of a train and say that we are all on a train that is going through the passage of the deep, thorough, and experiential knowledge of the One who has called us. In verse 3 Peter does not speak of the knowledge of God nor of the knowledge of the Father, Son, and Spirit. Instead, he speaks of the full knowledge of the One who has called us to His glory and virtue. Here Peter does not say that God has called us to heaven, nor even that He has called us to redemption or sanctification. In this verse Peter says that God has called us to His own glory and virtue. We need to have the full knowledge of this. We must not be content to know it superficially. We can know the One who has called us to His own glory and virtue only by passing through a long process. Regarding this, we should be like tourists taking a slow train ride through a beautiful countryside. Such tourists like to ride slowly in order to have a good view of the scenery. In like manner, we need to consider 1:1-4 thoroughly and slowly. You may read through these verses quickly again and again and not see anything. Therefore, as we read these verses, we need to consider carefully everything included in them.