Meet for Monday

Once again it was good to have been in the house of the Lord yesterday. As my SS teacher was giving the lesson yesterday the scripture he was reading at the paticular moment inspired me. In 2 peter 1:5-8 God's word says:

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 brotherely 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.

I know I should have been listing to what teacher was saying but have you ever come across a scripture and thought "where have you been my whole christian life?"? Here is God's check list; A road map, if you will, of what God expects me to be doing. A revelation. There is no question that this God's will for me right now no matter what my circumstances.

It is also a standard or guidline of what and how I should be teaching my children. Reading, writing, arithmatic are all important, but not first. If my children can name all the presidents and do 100 math problems but they don't know God or they can't be kind to each other then their knowledge is vain.

Finally, this is a promise from God. If these things"abound" then we will not be "barren" or "unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ".

Yes you are absolutely right; I came home and copied those verses in my journal(and here of course) and will pray that the Lord will help me to "give all diligence" to this list of His so we can be fruitful for Him. After all...isn't that why I home educate?