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Thoughts in Worship
Message Magazine's Online Devotional for Wednesday, May 31, 2017
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“Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.” (2 Peter 1:10–11).
Do you realize that God has given you every advantage to enter His kingdom? I know it sounds easier than many perceive that it is, but it’s true. Most people make salvation complicated when it’s not. With God’s plans, simplicity is key.
The apostle, Peter made it plain that growth in your spiritual experience is a process that compounds with every passing moment, and every passing day until Jesus comes. Although the gift of salvation is just that, a gift, to us, it is also a living organism. What if someone gave you a beautiful, flowering plant or tree that needed sunshine to thrive and you put it into a shaded area of your veranda? What would happen to it? Would it prosper in your possession simply because your loving friend gave it to you? Clearly, for this living thing to continue living, you have to do your part. You must water, nurture, and expose it to appropriate amounts of sunshine. If you do so diligently, it will live. If you take its beauty and the fact that it was a gift for granted, it will whither and die.
As with all examples, mine breaks down, but I hope you get the point—although salvation is a beautiful gift given to us free of charge, it is not wind up and go. It is not something that if we treat any ole way and take for granted it will prosper while in our possession. Notice what Peter said would nurture the gift of salvation in our lives as we continue to accept God’s great and precious promises and become partakers of the divine nature: “And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.” (2 Peter 1:5–9).
There you have it. Peter has given us God’s formula for growing our faith and nurturing salvation. These seven principles, all culminating in the seventh, love, will ensure the fruitfulness of our relationship with God.—L. David Harris (www.DavidWritesaLot.com)
Message Magazine's Online Devotional for Wednesday, May 31, 2017
Audio Link:
“Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.” (2 Peter 1:10–11).
Do you realize that God has given you every advantage to enter His kingdom? I know it sounds easier than many perceive that it is, but it’s true. Most people make salvation complicated when it’s not. With God’s plans, simplicity is key.
The apostle, Peter made it plain that growth in your spiritual experience is a process that compounds with every passing moment, and every passing day until Jesus comes. Although the gift of salvation is just that, a gift, to us, it is also a living organism. What if someone gave you a beautiful, flowering plant or tree that needed sunshine to thrive and you put it into a shaded area of your veranda? What would happen to it? Would it prosper in your possession simply because your loving friend gave it to you? Clearly, for this living thing to continue living, you have to do your part. You must water, nurture, and expose it to appropriate amounts of sunshine. If you do so diligently, it will live. If you take its beauty and the fact that it was a gift for granted, it will whither and die.
As with all examples, mine breaks down, but I hope you get the point—although salvation is a beautiful gift given to us free of charge, it is not wind up and go. It is not something that if we treat any ole way and take for granted it will prosper while in our possession. Notice what Peter said would nurture the gift of salvation in our lives as we continue to accept God’s great and precious promises and become partakers of the divine nature: “And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.” (2 Peter 1:5–9).
There you have it. Peter has given us God’s formula for growing our faith and nurturing salvation. These seven principles, all culminating in the seventh, love, will ensure the fruitfulness of our relationship with God.—L. David Harris (www.DavidWritesaLot.com)
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Thoughts in Worship
Message Magazine's Online Devotional for Wednesday, May 31, 2017
Audio Link:
“Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.” (2 Peter 1:10–11).
Do you realize that God has given you every advantage to enter His kingdom? I know it sounds easier than many perceive that it is, but it’s true. Most people make salvation complicated when it’s not. With God’s plans, simplicity is key.
The apostle, Peter made it plain that growth in your spiritual experience is a process that compounds with every passing moment, and every passing day until Jesus comes. Although the gift of salvation is just that, a gift, to us, it is also a living organism. What if someone gave you a beautiful, flowering plant or tree that needed sunshine to thrive and you put it into a shaded area of your veranda? What would happen to it? Would it prosper in your possession simply because your loving friend gave it to you? Clearly, for this living thing to continue living, you have to do your part. You must water, nurture, and expose it to appropriate amounts of sunshine. If you do so diligently, it will live. If you take its beauty and the fact that it was a gift for granted, it will whither and die.
As with all examples, mine breaks down, but I hope you get the point—although salvation is a beautiful gift given to us free of charge, it is not wind up and go. It is not something that if we treat any ole way and take for granted it will prosper while in our possession. Notice what Peter said would nurture the gift of salvation in our lives as we continue to accept God’s great and precious promises and become partakers of the divine nature: “And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.” (2 Peter 1:5–9).
There you have it. Peter has given us God’s formula for growing our faith and nurturing salvation. These seven principles, all culminating in the seventh, love, will ensure the fruitfulness of our relationship with God.—L. David Harris (www.DavidWritesaLot.com)
Message Magazine's Online Devotional for Wednesday, May 31, 2017
Audio Link:
“Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.” (2 Peter 1:10–11).
Do you realize that God has given you every advantage to enter His kingdom? I know it sounds easier than many perceive that it is, but it’s true. Most people make salvation complicated when it’s not. With God’s plans, simplicity is key.
The apostle, Peter made it plain that growth in your spiritual experience is a process that compounds with every passing moment, and every passing day until Jesus comes. Although the gift of salvation is just that, a gift, to us, it is also a living organism. What if someone gave you a beautiful, flowering plant or tree that needed sunshine to thrive and you put it into a shaded area of your veranda? What would happen to it? Would it prosper in your possession simply because your loving friend gave it to you? Clearly, for this living thing to continue living, you have to do your part. You must water, nurture, and expose it to appropriate amounts of sunshine. If you do so diligently, it will live. If you take its beauty and the fact that it was a gift for granted, it will whither and die.
As with all examples, mine breaks down, but I hope you get the point—although salvation is a beautiful gift given to us free of charge, it is not wind up and go. It is not something that if we treat any ole way and take for granted it will prosper while in our possession. Notice what Peter said would nurture the gift of salvation in our lives as we continue to accept God’s great and precious promises and become partakers of the divine nature: “And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.” (2 Peter 1:5–9).
There you have it. Peter has given us God’s formula for growing our faith and nurturing salvation. These seven principles, all culminating in the seventh, love, will ensure the fruitfulness of our relationship with God.—L. David Harris (www.DavidWritesaLot.com)