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 sixth of a series of posts discussing qualities we need to develop in our lives that will help us live the life that God intended us to live.
2 Peter 1:5-8 lists seven qualities that will help us become the person God wants us to be.
This post addresses godliness.
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, (2 Peter 1:5-6 ESV)
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)
Godliness is a combination of character and conduct. Godliness is an outward demonstration of an inner life. A godly person is a person who desires to live a life that is holy and pleasing to God.
So what kind of people should you be? Your lives should be holy and devoted to God. (2 Peter 3:11 ERV)
A godly person is living a life that has been transformed by God.
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. (Romans 12:1-2 ESV)
His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him … , (2 Peter 1:3 ESV)
A godly person is someone whose life has been transformed by God and is being transformed by the Word of God.
This letter is from Paul, a slave of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ. I have been sent to proclaim faith to those God has chosen and to teach them to know the truth that shows them how to live godly lives. (Titus 1:1 NLT)
Some people may contradict our teaching, but these are the wholesome teachings of the Lord Jesus Christ. These teachings promote a godly life. (1 Timothy 6:3 NLT)
Prayer: God, teach me how to live the godly life that you have planned for me.
For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, (Titus 2:11-13 ESV)
(Be sure to read future posts that will discuss more qualities that will help us live our lives as God intended.)
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