I know, it has been awhile since my fingers flew over my keyboard keys. I was busy trying to figure out the taxes. I never imagined that it would have been so hard. We came to Canada 9 years ago, from a tax free environment and this aspect of Canada has been my hardest part. For the past three years or so, I was determined to try and understand the system, and although I think I have made mistakes, I seem to be grasping it. It is even more hard, when you try to be honest. Honesty as with every other virtue does not come easily. I measure my actions by The Word, and I come up short every time. But as I yield, I find that His change is being worked into me.
Today I contemplate on 2 Peter 1:4-8.
"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.
5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
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."
Once again, I am reminded that our goal is to be like Him. We have rich promises of a sure salvation. We have escaped corruption, and we partake in His divine nature, some of the characteristics of which are mentioned here. We should give all diligence to faith, virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness, brotherly kindness, charity. As we yield, we will find that these characteristics are being formed in us.
May our God of glory Bless you and transform you into His precious likeness. Karen
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