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“Add to Your Faith ...”
Categories: Shepherd's Corner“But also, for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. “ 2Peter 1:5-7
This is quite a list, isn't it? We are to "add" all of these things to the faith in God that we had when he added us into His family. The verb, “add,” suggests these are godly traits but, like every command in the Bible, God does not call us to do something without enabling us to fulfill His command.
Knowledge, self-control, perseverance, godliness, brotherly kindness, and love do not come naturally or easily to us. We need to be willing to work with God as He, through His Spirit, develops these characteristics in us. He is willing and able because He loves us!
Let us hunger and thirst for these qualities in our lives and strive to be more Christ-like as we serve him every day.
