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.
So, friends, confirm God's invitation to you, his choice of you. Don't put it off; do it now. Do this, and you'll have your life on a firm footing, the streets paved and the way wide open into the eternal kingdom of our Master and Savior, Jesus Christ.
So, friends, confirm God's invitation to you, his choice of you. Don't put it off; do it now. Do this, and you'll have your life on a firm footing, the streets paved and the way wide open into the eternal kingdom of our Master and Savior, Jesus Christ.
I Peter 1:5-11
Imagine being the choice of God. Just something good in that! Something gives us confidence that we are loved. Something that reminds us that it is not up to us anyway. Something that gives us freedom to live our lives with the qualities listed in this passage. It just feels good to be loved and have eternal life right now. So do not put off accepting that God has choosen you. Do not put off walking the wide open road of life, of eternal life right now. Live a life of love, service, patience, and kindness. This is life eternal and God has handed it to you, choosen you for it.
Namaste'
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This reminds me of the old song by Steven Curtis Chapman that had a lot of influence on me when I first planted Rising Hope. "The Great Adventure" I want that to be my experience. I especially like the line that says, "I'm going to leave long faced religion in a cloud of dust behind.
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