Get to work!

Get to work!

2 Peter 1 says that we have to give all diligence to adding to our faith.

We have to put in diligent, disciplined, daily work!

We don’t “have faith” and then magically keep growing without doing anything.

If you aren’t doing anything – you aren’t obeying!

God calls you to get to work.

To be sure, it is of grace, it is of faith, it is dependent on His work. But it is work.

Some of you can take every effort to get a ticket for The Dark Knight Rises on opening night.

You can plan ahead for vacation. You can put in the work on a hobby or an interest or a way to make some extra money.

But when it comes time to pray, to read the Word, to join in with others in Bible Study you are too busy and too tired.

Maybe you need to admit that your laziness toward spiritual things is a Satanic slumber. Maybe you need to admit that your lack of discipline is a sin that is destroying you silently.

Maybe you need to get on your knees and repent.

And then get up and be diligent.

Ask God for more zeal. “God I want to love you more. Help me to seek You and Your Kingdom first and best.”

Ask the Spirit of God to energize you for spiritual growth. The Spirit of God raised Jesus Christ from the dead. He is ready to empower you. “Spirit of God fill me now. Spirit of God subdue my flesh, my selfish comfort, and all of my excuses.”

Ask Him. And then take some steps to work with Him.

Set some priorities.

Don’t eat until you have been in the Word for 20 minutes.

Don’t talk to others until you have talked to God for 10 minutes.

Fight off laziness and slackness.

And make every effort to add to your faith.

But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, 6 to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, 7 to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. 8 For if these things are yours and abound, [you] [will] [be] neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 For he who lacks these things is shortsighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins. 10 Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble; 11 for so an entrance will be supplied to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.