2 Peter 1:5-8–Supplement Your Faith

2 Peter 1:5-8–"For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.  For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ."

This is a beautiful passage, full of practical theology applicable to every Christian.  While every Christian understands the reality of salvation (confession, repentance, belief), not every Christian understands that this does not end at conversion.  But salvation is a process of development, that we would grow in godliness.  That is what this passage is about: the maturation of our Christianity, from faith to brotherly affection.  The purpose of this process of growth is so that we would not be brandished ineffective or unfruitful because of immaturity, but that our faith would be supported by our life.  This is the very task for the Christian.  Let us make it our path and our intent to do so with eagerness and joy.