Today's Daily Lesson comes from 1 Peter chapter 1 verses 5 through 9:
5For this very reason, you must make every effort to support your faith with goodness, and goodness with knowledge, 6and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with endurance, and endurance with godliness, 7and godliness with mutual affection, and mutual affection with love. 8For if these things are yours and are increasing among you, they keep you from being ineffective and unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9For anyone who lacks these things is short-sighted and blind, and is forgetful of the cleansing of past sins.
Peter is giving counsel about how we are to live and treat one another as a community of faith.
Unto faith is added the habit of study, the practice of decency, the discipline of self control, and the commitment of patient endurance in love.
We deepen and we grow. As we do, our patience with and toleration of others should grow also. We mature and become long suffering, thankful that others were once long suffering with us.
The life of faith is a long journey. We don't get there overnight. It takes work. It also takes patience if we're going to get there together.
And that's the whole point.
Ryon Price is Senior Pastor of Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas.
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