Everything We Need

If you want to live a godly life, then choose to put the things into your mind that lead to living a godly life.  

- Elizabeth George, Author

His [God’s] divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.                            

- St. Peter, 2 Peter 1:3-4

GIGO is an acronym that originated in Computer Science. It stands for “Garbage In, Garbage Out” and means that “incorrect or poor-quality input (garbage) will always produce faulty output.” The same principle applies to life. If we feed our mind with bad input, it will certainly produce bad output.

The good news is this… As followers of Jesus Christ, God has given us everything we need (great input) to experience quality output (a godly life). As St. Peter reminds us, we have available to us the divine power of God and the knowledge of Him that allows us to escape the corruption of this world.

We are no longer slaves to sin, corruption, or evil desires, for we are children of God.

When we fill our minds with the things of God, we are liberated, we are set free from the bondage of sin and darkness.

I know, for me personally, how easy it is to let my mind wander and be controlled by the seven deadly sins:

- Pride

- Greed

- Lust

- Envy

- Gluttony

- Wrath

- Sloth

Throw in Selfishness and Self-centeredness and you have a pretty good [actually, a really ugly] picture of where my mind can go. Which is why it is so critical for me to keep my mind focused on the things of God, and as the Apostle Paul reminds us in Philippians 4:8, “...whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable – if anything is excellent or praiseworthy – think about such things.”

Friends, God has given me, and you, everything we need to live a life worthy of Him. The only questions that remain are these: 1. Do I, and do you, want to live that life, and 2. Am I, and are you, willing to set our minds on the things of God rather than on the things of this world?

As someone once wrote, “Lord, I pray for the dedicated focus to live a godly life in the midst of this crazy, fast-paced, self-centered world.”

Pastor Ken

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