We all do it.
Ever wonder how to keep from stumbling...so much?
As I was reading this morning I came across this little gem.
It's found in the book of Peter.
Straightforward - Peter tells us how it is - what we need to do to keep ourselves in check so we don't stumble in our walk with the LORD.
Have a look and be encouraged.
I was!
2 Peter 1
1 From: Simon Peter, a slave and apostle of Yeshua/Jesus the Messiah
To: Those who, through the righteousness of our G-d and of our Deliverer Yeshua/Jesus the Messiah, have been given the same kind of trust as ours:
2 May grace and shalom be yours in full measure, as you come to a full knowledge of G-d and Yeshua/Jesus our Lord.
3 G-d’s power has given us everything we need (wow) for life and godliness, through our knowing the One who called us to his own glory and goodness. 4 By these he has given us valuable and superlatively great promises, so that through them you might come to share in G-d’s nature and escape the corruption which evil desires have brought into the world. (wow)
5 For this very reason, try your hardest to furnish your faith with goodness, goodness with knowledge, 6 knowledge with self-control, self-control with perseverance, perseverance with godliness, 7 godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. 8 For if you have these qualities in abundance, (so important) they keep you from being barren and unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Yeshua/Jesus the Messiah.
9 Indeed, whoever lacks them is blind, so shortsighted that he forgets that his past sins have been washed away. (if we forget from how great a height we have fallen then there is no hope for us)
10 Therefore, brothers, try even harder to make your being called and chosen a certainty. (this is the key) For if you keep doing this, you will never stumble.
11 Thus you will be generously supplied with everything you need to enter the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Deliverer, Yeshua/Jesus the Messiah.
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