And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. 2 Peter 1:5-9

So now that you have become saved, now that you have been convicted of your sin, you repented and put your faith in Jesus Christ, you now have become Born Again and baptized with the Holy Spirit, so now what? What do you do after you become a new creation in Christ? Well it’s a process of sanctification, the Holy Spirit living inside of you, and working in you, growing and transforming you

The Apostle Peter here describes the Christian walk, “Giving all diligence or reason, add to your faith virtue or patience , knowledge, godliness,kindness, and love” Notice Peter says you “add to your faith” in the Christian walk. You don’t just remain stagnant or the same as a Christian, you’re continually growing in Christ with the Holy Spirit living inside of you. As Peter says “make every effort”, the question is are you making any effort to grow in The Lord? Are you actually growing in Christ or are you at the same spot when you first became saved?

You might say, I don’t want to do any of these things, I want to be a lazy Christian and wait for the rapture to come. Notice what Peter says “If these things be in you and abound, they make you that you shall not be barren or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ” If you want to be fruitful for Christ, if you want God to use you to do amazing things, then you can’t be a lazy Christian and seek Christ with all your heart, mind, and soul. If you make no effort seeking The Lord by studying the scriptures, praying without ceasing, fellowshipping and serving the Church, then God has no use for you, because you are a wicked lazy servant 

It comes down to the root of the greatest commandment, “Love the Lord God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind” (Matthew 22:37) Do you actually do this? Do you really love Jesus with everything you are? If you do, then why doesn’t your life reflect this? If your life does reflect this, then you will see the sanctification of the Holy Spirit, the fruit being produced through you because of Christ

As Jesus said “Seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you as well” (Matthew 6:33) If you want to know what God’s will is for your life, Seek Christ, Seek The Kingdom, be led and sanctified by the Holy Spirit, Amen!