| | (2 Peter 1:5-7) For this very reason, 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.______________ How I just love the Scripture above but it is rather unfortunate that not many of us actually follow through this statutes. Each day when the morning dew sets in on the myriad of leaves in front of my bedroom window, I would turn on the radio station to listen to the news before I head off to work. And I must say every time I hear a life passed away due to some morbid calamity, it makes me muse on how frail the human life is. Many times than not, I often wonder if those who have died ever had the opportunity to seek the truth or even come to know the truth about our Heavenly father, in Lord Jesus Christ. If anything, I hope that they do and if not, I am certain that we are serving a loving and just God. Thus, He will not be partial with His own creations.
In this very scripture, it reminds us that we should make it our every effort to add values to our faith and knowledge. Furthermore, as Christians, we need to learn self-control with resoluteness and in that resoluteness we then renovate it with Godly qualities. When we embrace the Godly traits, we discover how to treat everyone with subterranean loving affection. Nonetheless, with the way the temporal realm is appearing, there’s nothing but hatred, retaliations, bloodshed, political controversy, and war precinct that seem to occur in the midst of innocent lives. How can we put an ending to all this chaos around the globe? In truth, there’s nothing anyone can do about it but the individual themselves. It has to start with the person before the whole nation can become united. We cannot change the world if we think for one second that we are perfect and that there’s no need for any changes in us. Human is far from perfection yet only one man can make that all possible for us. It is Jesus Christ, himself.
Over many decades down the line, the ambiguities of societal apathetic ways have left people with a bitterness stance and confounded by adverse taste of pessimism. As time passes, the abhorrent essence of one generation then becomes embedded into the next. Hence, how can hatred ever cease if there isn’t anyone who has the bravery to alter a revolutionary change to it all? Dear friends, Lord Jesus saw this and he knew what his purpose was on earth. He knew he needed to make that change for all of us. Can anyone be willing to say that they can save the world? Of course not. But Jesus Christ did. He was sent by God, our Heavenly father to put a stop to the culprit, Satan, the Devil, from these heaps of disarray. But the question is, are we willing to accept this truth? Are we willing to let Christ live and dwell in us through the monotony days of our lives? The answer to this is rather simple but ghastly denied by the people and obscured for what it’s worth. We have the prerogative to make a decision. But a decision that is based upon a weak foundation of faith is dead and in effect, are blinded by the insatiable desires that derives from the broader path of this world.
With that, please bear in mind that God gave us all the gift of free-will. Hence, we can open our heart today to make that positive change. If not now, then when. Life is fragile, dear friends. We live today yet have no clue as to when our last day is marked. But I like to ask you this, if you do know of your last day; then will you know with a certainty where you would be after death? Learn the truth and perhaps, this truth can save you for all eternity, if you will. God loves us all and thus, He love us so much that He had sent Jesus Christ to die for us to gain ever-lasting life. All he need from us is to love and accept him just the same as he did for us.
Let us pray
Dear Lord,
I thank You for this day. I thank You for my being able to see and to hear this morning. I'm blessed because You are a forgiving God and an understanding God. You have done so much for me and You keep on blessing me. Forgive me this day for I have sinned. I ask now for Your forgiveness.
Keep me safe from all danger and harm. Let me start this day with a new attitude and plenty of gratitude. Let me make the best of each and every day and give my best in all that is put before me.
Clear my mind that I can hear from You. Broaden my mind that I can accept all things that are of You. Let me not whine and whimper over things I have no control over.
Let me continue to see sin through Your eyes and acknowledge it as evil. And when I sin, let me repent, and confess with my mouth my wrong doing, and receive the forgiveness of God.
And when this world closes in on me, let me remember Jesus' example to slip away and find a quiet place to pray. It's the best response when I'm pushed beyond my limits. I know that when I can't pray out loud, You listen to my heart.
Continue to use me to do Thy Will. Continue to bless me that I may be a blessing to others. Keep me strong that I may help the weak and unsaved.
Keep me uplifted that I may have words of encouragement for others. I pray for those that are lost and can't find their way. I pray for those that are misjudged and misunderstood. I pray for those who refuse to share a word from You. I pray for those who don't know You intimately.
I pray for those that will only read this and not speak this aloud in their own lives. I pray for those that will delete this without sharing it with others. I pray for those that don't believe ... But I thank you that I believe.
I believe that You change people, and I pray for all my sisters and brothers. For each and every family member in their households. I pray for peace, love and joy in their homes that they are out of debt and all their needs are met.
I pray that every eye that reads this knows there is no problem, circumstance, or situation greater than You, Lord. Every battle is in Your hands for You to fight. I pray that these words be received into the hearts of every eye that sees them and every mouth that confesses them willingly.
This is my prayer.
In Jesus' Name,
Amen.
Do you have the courage to accept this truth? |
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