"Clean up you act," says GOD, "So we can live together in harmony."
2 PETER 1:5-7 (MSG)
So don’t lose a minute in building on what you’ve been given, complementing your basic faith with good character, spiritual understanding, alert discipline, passionate patience, reverent wonder, warm friendliness, and generous love, each dimension fitting into and developing the others.
THE ESSENCE
Genuine faith always matures into rich goodness and practical love for people.
DAILY FODDER
If faith in Christ is enough (Galatians 2:16), how is it that faith somehow needs to be completed with all these other qualites?
PRAYER
How thankful I am, dear Lord, that your divine power gives me all I need for life and godliness. Forgive my unwillingness to reform my ways. I need your Spirit to develop your goodness in me. Work in me to support my faith with goodness, knowledge, godliness, and love. Make me a willing and effective disciple. Amen. (Daily Texts, Ground Up Grace edition)
THE LORD’S PRAYER (ABP)
Our Father in Heaven,
we hold your name in the highest regard.
Please come and establish your reign here on earth
so that everything that happens here will align
with what is happening in heaven.
Our Father in Heaven,
we hold your name in the highest regard.
Please come and establish your reign here on earth
so that everything that happens here will align
with what is happening in heaven.
Give us enough food for today.
Forgive us our wrongdoing,
and we’ll forgive those who have wronged us.
Shield us from the trials and temptations that come our way.
Lastly, we pray that you will protect us from all forms of evil. Amen.
and we’ll forgive those who have wronged us.
Shield us from the trials and temptations that come our way.
Lastly, we pray that you will protect us from all forms of evil. Amen.
