Remember

“For this very reason, 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, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love. For 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.” - 2 Peter 1:5-8

Yesterday at Target, I picked up some new vitamins for Coach and I.  His...a men's multi-vitamin.  Mine was a women's multi-vitamin.  Just as I went to put mine in the cart, I saw a box that said Energy.  So I grabbed it and read more.  It was a multi-vitamin plus energy and memory boosting.  WHAT???  They make that?  I mean, all this time, I've gone along forgetting one thing after another, and here is a vitamin that might help me to remember?  I really hope I can remember to take it...

Today's verse I thought was so relevant in my life.  I am forever second guessing my actions.  Sometimes I am right...sometimes I am wrong.  But I am constantly looking back thinking...Did I do the right thing this time?  And to be honest with you...I don't very often come up with a solid answer.  I just wonder, and worry, and fret.  About my emotions...about the feelings of others...and it makes me all anxious inside. 

This verse is relevant to me because basically it is saying...if you live your life like Jesus wants us to live...there will be less questioning.  You'll do everything you do with faith, goodness, perseverance, godliness, self-control, mutual affection and love.  It says if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of Jesus Christ. 

All I want is to do the right thing.  The right thing is so hard to see clearly sometimes.  You think you are doing that, only to turn around and see that what you thought to be right and true...was wrong in the eyes of someone else.

But we aren't to live for the likes of others.  We are to live as a reflection of Him.  And we all know that during the time of Christ on earth...people questioned Him.  People were put off by His good works.  That is and has been one of the challenges of being a Christian for many years.

So, my focus this week will be to live intentionally for Christ.  Trying to look forward in ways I can show his love instead of looking back.  The steps I have taken are exactly that.  Taken.  So we move on...which is a hard thing to do sometimes.

Hope you have a wonderful Monday! 
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