Connects to Love

2 Peter 1:5-9 For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; 6and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; 7and to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love. 8For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9But if anyone does not have them, he is near-sighted and blind, and has forgotten that he has been cleansed from his past sins.

-Everything has a virtue connected to...if you do this, make sure this is connected to it
-Because its better to have more virtues than only one
-If you have faith, connect goodness to it...if you want to have faith do good works with that faith "faith w/out deeds is dead"
-if you want goodness connect knowledge to it...Make sure you know why you are doing good things..don't do them just to show a mask or be a hypocrite, do it because you want to because your heart lives that's way....let goodness live in your mind so your mind can be clear of evil thoughts and actions...so goodness can constantly live in your heart
-with knowledge comes self-control, when you know things, you'll know the difference between right and wrong....when you know Gods law and what He commands than you will know that the flesh has to be weaker than the Spirit, when the Spirit is stronger it is easier to control the flesh, therefore making it easier to walk away from temptation and everything the enemy wants to put in front of you
-with self-control comes perseverance....if you have self-control you can move forward to your goal....self-control helps you move away from all your distractions in life and lets you push through the walls, the chains, everything the enemy wants to throw at you...
-with perseverance comes godliness....God did everything for us and He could have given up and thrown in the towel...He could have wiped us out like He did in Noah's time, but He kept His word and persevered with this generation..when we push through and keep going in the will of God, we become like God. God never gives up, He never leaves us, He never stops having faith in us, and that's how we need to be with Him and with ourselves....when we push through those hard times we are showing Godly characteristics
-with godliness comes brotherly kindness...God loves everyone...no matter who they are or what they have done, and when we have godliness we be kind to all people, no matter what...God has forgiveness all over Him and that's the quality we need to take from Him. Forgiveness, to our brothers and sisters, because that's the true meaning of kindness
-with brotherly kindness comes love. When we are kind to one another because we want to be that's when love shows up...love is truly showing it through God...God is love, and when we are kind to strangers they will see a difference in us because that difference is God
-God connects it all together to Him, It all connects to love

Lord,
everything you are and everything you've made connects down to you. Its all about love. Loving you, loving your creations, loving everything in this world. You made it all and loved it all. Thank you for creating it all for us. So we can live in the vastness of your glory. I love you. Amen.