Ben's Brain Dump

Don't Put It Off

5-9So 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.

2 Peter 1:3-9

I read this passage today and some things really stood out to me the first thing that stood out to me was in verse 4

"your tickets to participation in the life of God after you turned your back on a world corrupted by lust".

I find it very profound that our ticket to god is just simply turning our backs on the crap of this world. We can enter into heaven by just simply turning our backs to the crap of this world. Thats all it takes its so simple and easy. We can have eternal peace with God in a place that is far greater than anything we can imagine by simply turning our back from the crap of this world!!

The Second thing that really got me thinking was in verse 5

"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."

I love how in this verse the last thing that is mentioned is Love in the NIV all of this build up and the top layer of these values is LOVE I find that this is the one thing we use the least amount! Iam definitely guilty of this I am all for Passion and Discipline and wonder but Iam not that crazy about the friendliness and Love. Because it's a lot easier for me to be intense and just sit in awe of the wonder of an amazing God. It takes something for me to show that love and friendliness. I have to try to be friendly I have to try and show love to people and be Jesus with skin on. But this is what Jesus told us to do "And the Greatest of these is LOVE"

The Third an final thing that caught my attention in this verse is in verse 9

"Without these qualities you can't see what's right before you, oblivious that your old sinful life has been wiped off the books."

I find it very profound and interesting that Peter says that without these values of discipline, passion, love, that we can't truely understand the Grace of God! Grace is undeserved unmeritted favor and without us having these attributes in our lives we can't see the Grace of God! Until we have and use these things in our lives we can't truely understand grace!

Well that's what caught my eye in this verse

Hope it helped ya,