How to be useful and fruitful

In the spirit of sharing, I just would like to put some of my notes in this blog. I forget when I took this note or where and how I got it, but I hope that it can be a blessing.

Based on II Peter 1: 5-8 (NKJV)

"But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith and virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ."

Diligence - to make haste, to eager, to stretch out toward God, like a runner at the end of a race. Fervent in spirit.
Faith - firm conviction that God's word is true. God said what He meant and meant what He said. It is the tap root of Christian life.
Virtue - moral excellence, moral energy, purity, honesty, courage to stand firm in the truth
Knowledge - practical knowledge, common sense in applying Biblical principles
Self control - the ability to take a grip on oneself. Nothing is master but the Lord Himself. Living a balanced life.
Perseverance - patience, the voluntary and daily suffering of hard and difficult things for the sake of honor and usefulness
Brotherly Kindness - bearing one another's burdens, involved with people's needs. Seeing life through my brother's eyes.
Christian Love - seeking the highest good of the other person. Loving the unlovable just as God in Christ has done for us.

I am also still learning and trying to remind myself about this lesson. Sometimes it's hard to focus on what other people feel and need, especially when we're also stuck in the middle of a situation. But we should learn that God already first took care of us and so it's time for us to let it all to God and we're getting busy taking care of others.