Give Diligence.

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.

Give diligence…

Make your calling and election sure…

If ye DO these things…

ACTION on OUR PART!  Being a Christian is NOT PASSIVE! You don’t claim your salvation and box is up and tuck it away in a chest of drawers. Your salvation is ACTIVE.  If we aren't active in our saved state then we truly have forgotten we were purged from our OLD SINS. If we continue to commit the same ol' sins, or even brand new ones- we are forgetting the purging. We can be BLIND and we ARE blind if we lack the following--

Charity, brotherly kindness, godliness, patience, temperance, knowledge, virtue, faith.

Do you lack these things? Take a long hard look at yourself because it won't do any good if you don't, and ask yourself if you lack any of the above. If you can answer yes to any of them then perhaps you've become blind and aren't looking for the BLESSED HOPE.  If we STOP looking for the GREAT EXPECTATION of our SAVIOR'S RETURN, then it is very easy to slip into behavior that reveals the lack of conviction we have in our longing for Christ's return.

Satan would have us all believe that we'll never have the above as we should, but we have to pray that our God shuts Satan up and lets us see ourselves unblinded and without the despair Satan would draw us down into any way he can.

You could very well have the above any your humbleness will keep you from boasting, but I'm not asking you to boast to anyone, this is strictly a self-examination. You truly could not be blind and are living as God would have you, and if you are PRAISE the LORD! OR you may be okay on a few of the above mentioned things but not on all of them and you're a work in progress. However if you are BLIND and lack all the above pray desperately long and hard for sight, for the eyesalve that our Savior can give to us!

Having the above doesn't mean you won't ever be mean, unloving, etc but it means you will recognize when those times come and seek forgiveness for them instantly as soon as the realization hits you. We are works in progress and wretched human beings with flesh temptations. May God deliver us from all of them as He wills!

Please, Father God, we would not be blind, we need to see and we need to have all the attributes of one with the sight given to us by the Holy Spirit through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior!