Page 2 of 2Peter gives us a checklist: Okay guys, once you have faith mastered, take a crack at goodness, and when you've got that figured out, try knowledge.
I don't know about you, but I have yet to meet someone who has fully completed Peter's checklist. I certainly will never master it all. But just like training my horses, I will savor every victory in what I can accomplish through Christ.
I will probably never be able to do a headstand on my horse's back while he gallops through a burning hoop, but that doesn't mean that I won't try to get him to slow down his trot this afternoon. Just because I'm never going to win a gold medal in Dressage at the Olympics doesn't mean that I should quit trying to get a little better every day. It's the same with my faith. I will never write a theology of the Bible. I may never do any "tricks" like raising somebody from the dead or surviving a poisonous snake bite, but that doesn't mean that I can't try to grow a little better today.
You may just have the basics of salvation down, and that is wonderful! But never forget that it's just a springboard, just the beginning. Like riding horses, if you only knew what you were missing you would never go back.
