It's customary to begin a letter with some greeting, "Dear Sue, hope you're well" or some such thing. When you look at the letters in the New Testament, they're called "epistles," you see greetings like this, "Grace to you and peace." That's from Paul's letter to the Romans (1:7) and his epistles to the Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, Thessalonians, and to Timothy and Titus all begin pretty much the same way, "Grace to you and peace." But Peter in his epistles puts a spin on that greeting, writing, "Grace and peace be multiplied to you."
Now if you're on the receiving end of those greetings...and you are; God intends them for you as much as the recipients long ago...the greeting is welcome. We all need God's grace, His help for now and forever, and we all want to live with our hearts at peace. Do you see God giving His grace and peace here and now? Maybe. An important teaching of the Bible is that we see what God's done for us in hindsight. In hindsight we often see that God didn't just give us grace and peace; He multiplied grace and peace. Looking back, another benefit of aging! May you look back and see that grace and peace were indeed multiplied to you!
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