This is a long piece to restate in a short blog, but note the words Peter gives us about our own faith and our walk in faith. He tells us in these verses that we have been given all the necessary means to produce in our lives the results God is going to achieve. If we could read on we would see that his argument doesn't really end until verse eleven. But, the piece I want you to see is that while God supplies the power and the material to create in us a great life, Peter instructs us to "supply" to our life the necessary elements, as well. However, the word supply as translated here is misleading. The word, in the original, actually means to choreograph our Christian growth. We are to take the elements, made available by the power of the Lamb, and make sure we are adding them in correct order and with the diligence we are employed to enact. God will then (v. 11) supply us abundantly with the life and future we had hoped. We have a part in the choreograph piece. We don't supply the dancers but we have some responsibility in the organization and application of them by yielding to God's Spirit as He works in us. What did you choreograph yesterday? What will it look like by the end of the day?
My 2025 Theme Verses: Ezra 7:10 (ESV) For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the LORD, and to do it and to teach his statutes and rules in Israel. Daniel 1:8 (ESV) But Daniel resolved that he would not defile himself with the king’s food, or with the wine that he drank. Therefore he asked the chief of the eunuchs to allow him not to defile himself.
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Do you choregraph your Christian maturity? 2 Peter
2 Peter 1:3-5 "... seeing that His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence. For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust. Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence, and in your moral excellence, knowledge ..."
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