God's Goal For You

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GOD'S GOAL FOR YOU
Neil T Anderson

2 Peter 1:5-7 NIV
Make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love


A good summary of God's goal for you is found in 2 Peter 1:3-10. Your primary role is to diligently adopt God's character goals--goodness, knowledge, self-control, perseverance, godliness, brotherly kindness and love--and apply them to your life. Focusing on God?s goals will lead to ultimate success: success in God's terms. Peter promises that, as these qualities increase in your life through practice, you will be useful and fruitful, and you will never stumble. That's success!

Notice also that there is no mention in this list of talents, intelligence or gifts which are not equally distributed to all believers. Your worth isn?t determined by those God-given traits. Your worth is based on your identity in Christ and your growth in character, both of which are equally applicable to every Christian. Those who are not committed to God?s goals for character will never fulfill their primary purpose for being here. According to Peter, they have forgotten who they are. They are out of touch with their true identity and purpose in Christ.

God loves you and will never leave you. You are forgiven by God and are His child. You have established your identity in Christ and live today in union with God. You are becoming increasingly characterized by the fruit of the Spirit. If you really believed everything that is true about you, would you be successful? Would you feel good about yourself? Should you feel good about yourself? Of course! God has not called you to be a failure, so follow His scriptural formula and be the success He has called you to be.

Prayer:

Thank You, Lord, that I can do all things today through Your Son, Jesus, who strengthens me.

 

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Thanks Sis!

 

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Jas 1:18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures

Rom 8:29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

Eph 4:13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ:

HOW do we do this?
First by having a personal relationship with the Holy Ghost and by hearing HIM

2Co 13:14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen.


1Co 2:13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

1Jn 2:27 But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.

Joh 6:45 It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me.

1Jn 2:20 But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.

 

[Ann]

"The ultimate goal of the Christian rises above the goodness that human nature can attain on its own. The standard for Christian excellence is based on nothing less than the likeness of Christ. To grow more and more like Christ should be the ultimate goal of every disciple."

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Of course! God has not called you to be a failure, so follow His scriptural formula and be the success He has called you to be.

This is truth - and to attain this we must believe in ourselves, if we don't we will never be successfull. We will become what we believe we can become and if we believe less than God has ordained for us, then we will be what we believe - less.

We must rather believe that we can become anything and everything in Christ as He gives to all of us with grace - believe more in Christ's ability to reform you into His likeness and you will be more than you can believe.

Lots of love.

Blessings!