You may have taken some wrong turns in life. It’s easy all do it. Just hear the Holy Spirit saying, ‘Reevaluate. He will still get you there. It’s going to take a little longer now, but I’ll still get you there.’ That’s what the Word of God does for you. It gives you a new set of directions. At some point, you have to listen though. So if you have gone some wrong directions, Learn this about God, He’s saying: ‘Yeah, you went the wrong way, but I’m not here to just yell at you and tell you that you screwed up. I’m just saying I’m recalculating your life now for you and I’ll give you a new set of directions and I’ll see to it that you still get there. You can still get there. It doesn’t matter what you’ve done. You can still get there. But now listen to God this time.
“Make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they will keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. For whoever lacks these qualities is so nearsighted that they are blind, having forgotten that they are cleansed from their former sins. Therefore, be all the more diligent to make your calling and election sure, for if you practice these qualities, you will never fall. For in this way, He has richly provided for you an entrance into the eternal kingdom.” [2 Peter 1:5-11]
Scripture says make every effort, it’s like bringing all your effort, bringing all your eagerness, to increase your faith with virtue and your virtue with knowledge and your knowledge with self-control. He names all these things that have to do with who you are, and He says make every effort toward this. “If these qualities are yours, if these character qualities are yours and they’re increasing, that’s what will keep you from being ineffective or unproductive.” See, when you’re the right person, things are going to happen. You’re going to produce the fruit. You’re not going to be ineffective. Things will happen in your life.
“Make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they will keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. For whoever lacks these qualities is so nearsighted that they are blind, having forgotten that they are cleansed from their former sins. Therefore, be all the more diligent to make your calling and election sure, for if you practice these qualities, you will never fall. For in this way, He has richly provided for you an entrance into the eternal kingdom.” [2 Peter 1:5-11]
Scripture says make every effort, it’s like bringing all your effort, bringing all your eagerness, to increase your faith with virtue and your virtue with knowledge and your knowledge with self-control. He names all these things that have to do with who you are, and He says make every effort toward this. “If these qualities are yours, if these character qualities are yours and they’re increasing, that’s what will keep you from being ineffective or unproductive.” See, when you’re the right person, things are going to happen. You’re going to produce the fruit. You’re not going to be ineffective. Things will happen in your life.
Just try to be the person that God wants you to be, and all the other stuff just starts happening. And all the results that you haven’t even strived after, these things just start happening. The Word of God will cleanse you again. And then you can stop trying so hard to fix this, to achieve that, to accomplish that. Just go back to becoming the person that God called you to be, and make every effort toward it. Be diligent.
You need to recalculate your life because maybe you’ve been too focused on what you want to do rather than on who God’s called you to be. Pursuing and praying hard and making every effort and bringing all your zeal towards these character qualities in your life making them your number one priority.
You need to recalculate your life because maybe you’ve been too focused on what you want to do rather than on who God’s called you to be. Pursuing and praying hard and making every effort and bringing all your zeal towards these character qualities in your life making them your number one priority.
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