Useless and Unfruitful

How would you like to be 'useless' and 'unfruitful'. Well you can be if you don't follow the advice from the first chapter of 2 Peter. Through Jesus Christ and through the Word, God has given all things pertaining to life and godliness. That's God's part. We have a part in being useful and fruitful too - its called our 'responsibility'. I like to think of 'responsibility' as our response to God's ability. So what is our response to what God has given us in respect to life and godliness?

2 Peter 1:5-10 - "Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence, and in your moral excellence, knowledge, and in your knowledge, self-control, and in your self-control, perseverance, and in your perseverance, godliness, and in your godliness, brotherly kindness, and in your brotherly kindness, love. For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they render you neither useless nor unfruitful in the true knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For he who lacks these qualities is blind or short-sighted, having forgotten his purification from his former sins. Therefore, brethren, be all the more diligent to make certain about His calling and choosing you; for as long as you practice these things, you will never stumble."