Wake Up and Remember
(2 Peter 1:1-15)
Simeon Peter, a bond servant and apostle of Jesus Christ to those who have received a faith equal in value to ours by the righteousness of our God and savior Jesus Christ. Grace and peace be multiplied to you by the knowledge of God and Jesus our Lord because, on us, his divine power has bestowed everything necessary for life and godliness through the knowledge of the one who called us by means of his own glory and virtue through which, on us, his priceless and great promises he has bestowed so that through these you may become sharers of God’s nature being freed from the moral decomposition that is in this world because of lust. For this very reason, make every effort to supply your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with endurance, and endurance with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. For, if these are yours and are multiplying, they make you neither useless nor unproductive in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For the one who does not have these things is blind, being shortsighted, having received forgetfulness of the cleansing of his former sins. Therefore, brothers and sisters, be even more zealous to validate your calling and election, for if you do these things you will never lose your footing. For, in this way, there will be richly provided for you an entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.