Love

II Peter 1:3-9 

³ By his divine power, God has given us everything we need for living a godly life. We have received all of this by coming to know him, the one who called us to himself by means of his marvelous glory and excellence. ⁴ And because of his glory and excellence, he has given us great and precious promises. These are the promises that enable you to share his divine nature and escape the world’s corruption caused by human desires.

 ⁵ In view of all this, make every effort to respond to God’s promises. Supplement your faith with a generous provision of moral excellence, and moral excellence with knowledge, ⁶ and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with patient endurance, and patient endurance with godliness, ⁷ and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love for everyone.

 ⁸ The more you grow like this, the more productive and useful you will be in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁹ But those who fail to develop in this way are shortsighted or blind, forgetting that they have been cleansed from their old sins.

I like Peter, he seems to make things simple and straight forward to me.  He says them in ways that I can understand.  The leader of the disciples tells me that I need to work at and pay attention to my actions and that the result will be brotherly affection for all.  That is a simple spiritual thermometer.  You either have love for all or you don't.

I fall short of this thermometer and have so much more to work towards.

Prayer -

God show me love so that I may model it.

Give me love so that I might share it.

Show me who I do not love and call me to change it.

amen

Comments

[MOM]

Both your dad and I were amazed at how much your kids pray like you. Keep modeling because they are following! MOM

[whittakerwoman]

Nate, the internet is swimming with compliments of your sermon yesterday! Can't wait to listen to it! I hope to see you this week. H