Read 2 Peter 1:6b
To patience we are to add godliness. Godliness is holiness. It incorporates all God is in one word so it is hard to wrap your head around. It comes from a reverence of God which sanctifies us and separates us from evil. Godliness is the absence of sin and the presence of God. When holiness is mentioned in the Bible it explains this principle. Heb. 12:14 says that we are to try to have peace with all men and we are to have holiness because without these things no one can see God. This is how people see God through us - they see it in our walk. This is further elaborated in Titus 2:3-5. It says that older women are to be sober, love their husbands, love their children, and teach the younger women to do the same so that God’s word will not be spoken evil of. We are to be examples to the world as living epistles. In other words: we are to be the Bible to those who don’t read it. This not only means living a life of purity, but carrying the presence of God in a way that they are drawn to Him. If we just live a righteous life and have no God in us we are good for nothing, but if we live a righteous life and do it with God’s grace then we are a weapon against the enemy and our godliness will be great gain to the kingdom.
Lord, may your godliness rest on us that others might see you in us.
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