Closing Thought: Because God's grace has made us partakers of the divine nature and supplied everything we need for a holy life, Peter calls us to make every effort to work out the new life we have received in Christ. We do this by deliberately developing the qualities we have been given through him and that he lived out perfectly in his earthly life. And if our lives appear ineffective or unfruitful, the remedy is not passivity or despair, but renewed diligence in supplementing the faith God has graciously given us. So, by the grace of God and to the glory of Christ; Let's go to work!