EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 10/22/2025 8:20 PM
My Worship Time Focus: “Second Quality of Character Temperance”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: 2 Peter 1:5-7
Message of the verses: 5 Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence, and in your moral excellence, knowledge, 6 to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, 7 to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love.”
It has been a pleasure for me to go back and look at the commentaries that Dr. Warren W. Wiersbe has written, and yes there is a story that goes along with Dr. Wiersbe’s commentaries. It was a long time ago that I began my journey of studying the Bible all the way through, and it began with me looking at Dr. Warren Wiersbe’s commentaries. It took me 25 years to study through the Bible and Dr. Wiersbe has a lot to do with me getting through the Bible. I wrote him a letter a year or so he went to be with the Lord and told him that I was using a lot of quotes from his commentaries and he wrote me back a few months later and told me that he was sorry he did not write back sooner and never mentioned a word about me quoting from his commentaries. I guess he was happy that I was getting the Word of God out by using my blogs.
“Because we have the divine nature, we can grow spiritually and develop this kind of Christian character. It is through the power of God and the precious promises of God that this growth takes place. The divine ‘genetic structure’ is already there: God wants us to be ‘conformed to the image of His Son’ (Rom. 8:29). The life within will reproduce that image if we but diligently cooperate with God and use the means He has lavishly given us.
“And the amazing thing is this: as the image of Christ is reproduced in us, the process does not destroy our own personalities. We still remain uniquely ourselves!
One of the dangers in the church today is imitation. People have a tendency to become like their pastor, or like a church leader. Or perhaps like some ‘famous Christian.’ As they do this, they destroy their own uniqueness while failing to become like Jesus Christ. They lost both ways! Just as each child in a family resembles his parents and yet is different, so each child in God’s family comes more and more to resemble Jesus Christ and yet is different. Parents don’t duplicate themselves, they reproduce themselves; and wise parents permit their children to be themselves.”
10/22/2025 8:37 PM
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