Adding to our faith - 5

2 Peter 1:5-6 (New American Standard Bible)

5. Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence, and in your moral excellence, knowledge,

6. and in your knowledge, self-control, and in your self-control, perseverance, and in your perseverance, godliness,

We all know that godliness is not putting on a mask of piety, rather it is having Christ-likeness in us. The very image of the Lord brings to our mind the meaning of the word godliness. For love and piety was something that reflected on His face, His speech, actions, behavior and attitude. Godliness cannot be developed in us. It has to be imparted. It will be imparted only when we become more of Him and less of us...

Many of them think that they are godly by doing a lot of spiritual things such as ministry, spiritual talks, fasting, being prayerful, etc. However, these are outward things which cannot sanctify a human heart. Sanctification comes when we yield to the discipline and changes that the Lord brings within us. It is an inside out transformation...And it can happen only when we are ready for such a process...

Prayer: Lord Jesus, help me become more of you and less of me. More of you in the way I think, react, speak and behave. Help me yield to a change required in me. I am willing now...In your precious name. Amen.