Our Footsteps: Short-sighted and Forgetful

Saturday, September 27, 2008

Short-sighted and Forgetful

In the last blog entry we saw that not heeding the advice in the first chapter of 2 Peter led to being 'useless and unfruitful'. In addtion to such unattractive qualities, we may also be 'blind, short-sighted and forgetful' if we lack those Christian graces mentioned in this chapter.

Blind to the truth. Blind to spiritual guidance.
Short-sighted. Seeing our own small space. Having no vision.
Forgetful of our purification. What person who is cleansed from head to toe forgets his purification?! I guess 9 out of 10 lepers forgot.

God forbid that we'd forget. And God forbid that we would have spiritual myopia. Our prayer should be that we would see clearly, think clearly, remember our purification clearly. And then we can earnestly pray that we'd have the strength and diligence to 'make certain about His calling and choosing us... for as long as we practice these things (from 2 Peter 1:5-7) we will never stumble'.

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