Title

Building Our Faith

Scripture
Giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love.
(2 Peter 1:5-7)
Devotional
The apostle James repeatedly tells us, "Faith without works is dead."[32] Here, the apostle Peter shows us what those works are when he says, "Add to your faith." Faith is the process of believing, trusting and obeying. Here we have that which we are to obey: virtue, knowledge, self-control, perseverance, godliness, kindness and love. The apostle Paul tells us in the 13th verse of the 13th chapter of 1 Corinthians, "The greatest of these is love."[33] Let us begin with faith, but let us go from faith to greater faith by adding the attitudes of Christ. Does He not hold these truths in His being and character? Is not His love perfect? Therefore let us give all diligence by adding these works to our faith