2nd Peter 1:5-11 tells us how to grow as a Christian:
Growth demands diligence, stay at it. Each step builds on the next. Growth is not automatic!
Add to saving faith a life of moral excellence or virtue. Keep your mind clean!
Build knowledge onto moral excellence. Learn how to know God from His Bible.
Knowing God and what pleases Him will build self control. This means controling yourself.
Onto self control build patient endurance which means to control yourself a long time.
This endurance is like staying power; people can count on you to represent Christ all the time.
To endurance we add Godliness which God enables through His Holy Spirit inside us. The Holy Spirit is our power for all of this, get to know Him. He's ready any time you make time to get serious.
FInally, Godliness leads to a ginune love for all people, espedially other Christians. To be like God is to love people sacrificially like Christ.
Spiritual growth is not hard. We just have to stay focused.
It also helps to bring people along with you in the journey.
On a journey, it's much more profitable to focus on where you are going than
take a wrong exit and wind up in the wrong place. Preparation and focus!
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