2 Peter 1:8
"For if these things be in you, and abound, they make
you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful
in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ."
Peter strongly urges his people to keep climbing up this ladder of virtues which he has set before them. The more we know of any subject the more we are fit to know. It is always true that "to him that hath it shall be given" Progress is the way to more progress. "We learn him as we live with him and for him."
To keep climbing up the ladder of the virtues is to come ever nearer to knowing Jesus Christ; and the further we climb, the further we are able to climb. On the other hand, if we refuse to make the effort of the upward climb, certain things happen. We grow blind; we are left without the guiding light that the knowledge of Jesus Christ brings. As Peter sees it, to walk without Christ is to walk in the dark and not to be able to see the way.
We grow short sighted, and we become short sighted in life, because we see things only as they appear at the moment and we are unable to take the long view of them, because our eyes are so fixed upon earth, we never think of the things beyond, and we become Spiritually blind. It is easy in life to shut our eyes to what we do not wish to see. To walk without Christ is to be in danger of taking the short sighted or the blinded view of life.
Amen!
Reading: (2 Pet. 1:8-11)
Ref: (HG SB)
To keep climbing up the ladder of the virtues is to come ever nearer to knowing Jesus Christ; and the further we climb, the further we are able to climb. On the other hand, if we refuse to make the effort of the upward climb, certain things happen. We grow blind; we are left without the guiding light that the knowledge of Jesus Christ brings. As Peter sees it, to walk without Christ is to walk in the dark and not to be able to see the way.
We grow short sighted, and we become short sighted in life, because we see things only as they appear at the moment and we are unable to take the long view of them, because our eyes are so fixed upon earth, we never think of the things beyond, and we become Spiritually blind. It is easy in life to shut our eyes to what we do not wish to see. To walk without Christ is to be in danger of taking the short sighted or the blinded view of life.
Amen!
Reading: (2 Pet. 1:8-11)
Ref: (HG SB)
May God Bless You
And Your Family
Minister Robert Lail Sr.
The Cross Life Ministry
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