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. With these qualities active and growing in your lives, no grass will grow under your feet, no day will pass without its reward as you mature in your experience of our Master Jesus. Without these qualities you can’t see what’s right before you, oblivious that your old sinful life has been wiped off the books.”
2 Peter 1:3-9 MSG
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Our faith is more than just believing. When we accept Christ we enter into a basic faith. We confess our sins, we accept that Jesus died for us and we ask the Lord to enter our life filling us with his spirit. Then what? The Lord will transform our character, our knowledge, our patience with life, our relationships, our spiritual thoughts, and our complete outlook on life and loving others. It’s a perfect compliment to our basic faith.
I am not satisfied with who I am and pray the Lord continues to change me. I love looking back and seeing who I was. It’s encouraging to see progress. I am more than I could ever imagine, not because of anything I’ve done,but through Christ who lives in me!
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