These verses in 2 Peter are my new “everyday meditate on verses.” There is so much information in these seven verses. I don’t like to fill up my blog with too many Bible verses because I like to keep it short and readable, and I know you have your own Bible reading time and schedule, but these are so good I will include all seven verses.

2 Peter 1:5-11
Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence, and in your moral excellence, knowledge, and in your knowledge, self-control, and in your self-control, perseverance, and in your perseverance, godliness, and in your godliness, brotherly kindness, and in your brotherly kindness, love. For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they render you neither useless nor unfruitful in the true knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For he who lacks these qualities is blind or short-sighted, having forgotten his purification from his former sins. Therefore, brethren, be all the more diligent to make certain about His calling and choosing you; for as long as you practice these things, you will never stumble; for in this way the entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will be abundantly supplied to you.

One of the phrases that jumps out to me is, “if these qualities are yours and are increasing they render you neither useless nor unfruitful.”

So much of the time, I focus on the tasks and the ministries that need to be done in my living for and serving the Lord. But this passage puts the focus on growing in character. If I grow in these character qualities, I will be neither useless nor unfruitful for Jesus.

The key to growing in these character traits is ” applying all diligence” and “being all the more diligent.” I understand what that means, and I can do that.