Are you living the life that God planned for you to live?
We are able to live the life that God intended for us to live. We are offered everything we need to become the person God intended us to be.
This is the introduction to a series of posts discussing seven qualities we need to develop in our lives that will help us live the life that God intended us to live.
Everything that we, as Christians, need for living a life that is pleasing to God is given to us by God as we grow in our knowledge of Jesus Christ.
3 His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence, 4 by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire. (2 Peter 1:3-4)
As Christians we have been delivered from the domain of darkness and are now members of Christ’s kingdom. We are no longer slaves to sin. Our lives should reflect the fact that we are members of Christ’s kingdom.
If we want to live the life that God planned for us to live, we will have a passion for knowing Jesus better. We will read the Bible. We need to have a strong desire to learn about His “precious and very great promises” that He has passed on to each of us in the scriptures. We must believe and claim these promises for ourselves.
(Be sure to read future posts that will discuss seven qualities that will help us live our lives as God intended.)
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 1:8)
A prayer for you:
And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God. May you be strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy, giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light. He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. (Colossians 1:9-14 ESV)
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