Effective and Fruitful

Do you ever feel ineffective or unfruitful? Scripture tells us how to make sure that does not describe us.

For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Peter 1:5-8

There is a key word that hit me this morning when I read this passage in 2 Peter. That word is “increasing.” Peter is saying that you need to have faith, knowledge, self-control and all these other things. But we don’t just attain them once and move on. These qualities need to be increasing in our lives. We can’t be comfortable with where we are in these areas. There must always be growth. And if there is growth in these areas we can be certain that we will not be ineffective or unfruitful through Jesus Christ.

Pray over this list of things that Peter mentions. Ask God to show you what areas you are lacking in and how you can grow in each of these and together we can continue to be effective and fruitful through Jesus and For His Glory.