2nd Peter 1:5-8

But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith 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.

Peter urges the believer to be diligent- (Definition of diligent) : characterized by steady, earnest, and energetic effort : painstaking
Did you know?
You’re more likely to be diligent about something if you love doing it. The etymology of diligent reflects the fact that affection can lead to energetic effort. The word, which entered English in the 14th century by way of Anglo-French, descends from the Latin verb diligere, meaning “to value or esteem highly” or “to love.” The Latin diligere was formed by adding the di- prefix (from dis-, “apart”) to the verb legere, an ancestor of the English legend, meaning “to gather, select” or “to read.” Of course, you don’t need to care for the task at hand in order to be diligent, but it certainly does help! Merriam Webster Dictionary.

As the days darken, the need for every believer to be diligent about their faith, their commitment to Jesus, and the condition of their inner world, becomes all the more critical. Tending to the character of the inner man – the ‘New Creation’ in Christ and with God’s enabling growing up into the mature likeness of His Son (Romans 8:29)

We are called to test ourselves – for there is coming a day when each one of us will stand before the ‘Bema seat’ of Christ and we will either find reward or suffer loss – even though salvation itself is not on the line. Jesus will require us to give account of how we spent the life He gave us. Whether we spent it on ourselves, our flesh investing in this temporal world or whether we lived for His higher calling to like Jesus bring glory to God the Father!
Our choice – and we will stand accountable for those choices. 1Corinthians 3: 10-17

Do you spend at least as much time in fellowship with the Lord, prayer and the reading of His word as you do on social media a day?
Are you diligent in rooting out of your life those things which have no part in the life of a ‘New Creation’ in Christ and the intentional in the ‘putting on’ of those things which are?

Selah