Thursday morning, and may our Good God bless you and all you undertake today!
Read 2 Peter 1:1 – 11.
According to this portion of Peter’s second letter, our journey through this life on our way to the everlasting Kingdom of our Lord Jesus is to be one of active and purposeful growth.
Isaiah 28 says “For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept, Line upon line, line upon line, Here a little, there a little.”. In like manner, Peter tells us here that our spiritual growth is a building process, starting on the firm foundation of our faith. Upon that foundation, through the abundance of Jesus, we add “bricks” consisting of virtue, knowledge, self-control, and so forth.
Peter instructs us to be diligent in this building process, this spiritual growth he is calling us to – “For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.” (vv 8); and, “if you do these things you will never stumble;” (vv 10b).
Brother, let’s get to work! Amen!