God Creates Fruit, I Only Enjoy It
Reading: 2 Peter 1 “It’s a process,” I protest, “It takes time.” So you’ve had fifty years since you gave yourself to me. Practice doesn’t seem to be cutting it, does it? “But I’m only human,” I whine. “You can’t expect me to be perfect.” No, I’m the only One Who’s perfect. But I gave you sufficient resources to have gotten better at imitating me by now. “It’s hard,” I reason. Of course it is. In fact, when you try to do it yourself, it’s impossible! “Sometimes it’s annoying to be surrounded by Someone who has all the answers.” Maybe if you paid attention to them…? “Did I miss something?” I’m going to forget you said that. But let’s not get sidetracked here. You’ve read, or heard someone preach on, 2 Peter 1:5-8 lots of times, right? But maybe that’s a problem. “How so?” Listen to it. I told Peter to say ‘…make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; a...