Diligence produces the following: a life of moral excellence, a growing experiential knowledge of God through your circumstances, self-control in your circumstances, perseverance in your circumstances, godliness, brotherly kindness, and love toward those who are in your circumstances with you. Diligence transforms you inwardly and that inner transformation changes your external behavior. What you believe becomes a lifestyle not a creed.
The diligent will find their lives being constantly enriched by those spiritual blessings.
Diligence will destroy the complacency and apathy that kills Christ-like love.
A lack of diligence will afflict you with the worst kind of blindness: a short-sighted, self-centered focus on what you believe is best for you--and those you've been called to love and serve--right now. This is the blindness that Christ compares to being in a darkened room and thinking you are standing in the floodlights. Paul calls it "walking blindfolded in a world of illusion"--the same blindness that infects the ungodly. And you wonder why people can't see Christ in you; why you've lost a clear vision of God's will for you and for those you love. Diligence will keep you from stumbling in the darkness of a selfish life.
And you wonder why it is so difficult to be diligent? Why the enemy hates diligence? Why the enemy wants you to believe that what you have been called to do is "just not worth it," just not making a difference anyway"? He's a liar!
Diligence is evidence that I am trusting in the wisdom of God's will for my life. Diligence is the evidence that I really do want to become more like Him.
Diligence is necessary for the vision God wants to give me into who He is and what He desires to do for others through me--the vision that if I lack it, my work for Him will shrivel up and perish in the muck of complacency and apathy.
Diligence and godliness are synonyms.
Diligence will destroy the complacency and apathy that kills Christ-like love.
A lack of diligence will afflict you with the worst kind of blindness: a short-sighted, self-centered focus on what you believe is best for you--and those you've been called to love and serve--right now. This is the blindness that Christ compares to being in a darkened room and thinking you are standing in the floodlights. Paul calls it "walking blindfolded in a world of illusion"--the same blindness that infects the ungodly. And you wonder why people can't see Christ in you; why you've lost a clear vision of God's will for you and for those you love. Diligence will keep you from stumbling in the darkness of a selfish life.
And you wonder why it is so difficult to be diligent? Why the enemy hates diligence? Why the enemy wants you to believe that what you have been called to do is "just not worth it," just not making a difference anyway"? He's a liar!
Diligence is evidence that I am trusting in the wisdom of God's will for my life. Diligence is the evidence that I really do want to become more like Him.
Diligence is necessary for the vision God wants to give me into who He is and what He desires to do for others through me--the vision that if I lack it, my work for Him will shrivel up and perish in the muck of complacency and apathy.
Diligence and godliness are synonyms.
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