Stir you up by putting you in remembrance

2Pe 1:1 Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:
2Pe 1:2 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,
2Pe 1:3 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
2Pe 1:4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
2Pe 1:5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
2Pe 1:6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
2Pe 1:7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
2Pe 1:8 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.
2Pe 1:9 But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
2Pe 1:10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
2Pe 1:11 For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
2Pe 1:12 Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.
2Pe 1:13 Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;
2Pe 1:14 Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.
2Pe 1:15 Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance.
2Pe 1:16 For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
2Pe 1:17 For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
2Pe 1:18 And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.
2Pe 1:19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
2Pe 1:20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
2Pe 1:21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.


Faith
Virtue
Knowledge
Temperance
Patience
Godliness
Brotherly Kindness
Charity


We need these things in our lives constantly, always and if we don't have them then we are blind, we can't see the future, we've forgotten that we've been saved from our old sins.


Take stock of yourself, it's something we ALL have to do. When we stop caring if we believe, when believing in God, in our Savior becomes something we've tucked away in the back of our minds and lives, we are in danger. It's not enough to believe without caring, without loving. The Bible tells us this-


Jas 2:19 Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.


Devils believe. They know the truth and it scares them. We have to know the truth and in knowing believe, have faith in that truth. We have to have virture, knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness, brotherly kindness, charity. When we stop short of believing that we should have these things in our lives we begin to slip away from Christ. We become blind and we don't focus on a future life with Him in heaven. We forget that He came to save us from our sins so that we may live with Him in a world that is beyond our imagination without pain of any kind, without sadness, without angst, without all that troubles a person. Every day we are faced with problems, old ones, new ones, problems we anticipate will come our way. We don't live without knowing that there are hardships to face, we are quick to think on them. We need to be quick to think on God and God's way.


Peter is adamant about putting us in remembrance.


2Pe 1:12 Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.


Even though we know we need to remember always so we're established in present truth. We can't think on these things enough. We can't talk about them enough. We can't write about them enough. We need to have these thoughts before us at all times.


May God bless and keep us now and always in remembrance of Him and His love for us in the hope of living with Christ our Lord and Savior forever.


By His grace, by His mercy.


In His love.


Amen.