Extraordinary Ordinary!Örnek

“Applying all diligence”, in II Peter 1:5, means you are willing to lavishly pour out everything it takes for you to live a noble life and an extraordinary life. The most important place to apply all diligence is in your faith.

The word that Peter uses for faith is the Greek word pistis, which means a holy fervor and strong conviction. When a person believes in something strongly enough, or has decided faith in something, action will always follow belief. Faith is more than a heart attitude or a moral compass; faith eternally propels and compels the believer to action and response.

The disciplines of following Christ, loving Christ, and obeying Christ may take a lifetime of lively diligence. Your faith deserves no less than your wholehearted effort every day of every week of every month of every year.

After the call for die-hard diligence and the genuine premise that it all begins in our faith, Peter then begins a list, which will take us on a victory march toward a definite objective. Once you have committed to lavishly pouring out every ounce of energy of your life in order to build your faith, it is now time to commence the grunt work.

The first attribute, after faith, that Peter commands diligence concerning is moral excellence. Our faith should always propel us to live a life of moral excellence otherwise it is merely religion. Faith was always meant to go from your head to your heart and make a resounding life difference in that place.

Obedience and moral excellence are truly, at their very foundation, a reflection of a believer’s love for Jesus. Moral excellence is the visible evidence that I am absolutely head over heels in love with Jesus. I love Him therefore when He says it ... I do it!