2Pt1

Avoid the ditches of "useless and unfruitful".  If you think that your faith begins and ends with "believing", then your life will not have a significant impact on eternity.  Peter's desire would be that each of us would add, with increasing measure, character to what we believe.

Examine this list to add: goodness, knowledge, self-control, endurance, godliness, brotherly affection, & love.  He says, these things need to be yours and growing.  If they are, you will be useful and fruitful in your faith.  If they are not, you will be useless and unfruitful.

You cannot work for faith or salvation, but once you have received this wonderful gift, the work begins.  God is calling us to live out our faith in a productive manner.  What can we do today to make critical progress.  

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