Perfection/Direction: 2 Peter 1:5-8

Earlier this week our church’s youth group embarked on a mission trip to lead a Vacation Bible School at a small church in the Birmingham, Alabama area. This is not the first trip in which our youth have partnered with another church in order to put on a VBS for a community that would otherwise struggle to provide this ministry to children–as a matter of fact, this is the second such trip our youth have taken this summer alone. On these trips our youth participate in a daily Bible study time in which a book of the Bible is selected and we study one chapter per day. Being we studied 1 Peter last week, it only seemed logical to study 2 Peter this week.

As I was reading 2 Peter, there was a particular truth that stuck-out from the pages more than any other. From 2 Peter 1:5-8 (NIV), “For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love. For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.”