The Grands Letter

Dear Grands,

2 Peter 1:5-9, “Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence, and in your moral excellence, knowledge,
6 and in your knowledge, self-control, and in your self-control, perseverance, and in your perseverance, godliness,
7 and in your godliness, brotherly kindness, and in your brotherly kindness, love.
8 For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they render you neither useless nor unfruitful in the true knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
9 For he who lacks these qualities is blind or short-sighted, having forgotten his purification from his former sins.”

Just in case you’ve missed what’s going on, our current Congress is seeking to further corrupt our nation by side-stepping the Supreme Court’s recent scrubbing of the no-hold’s-barred Roe v. Wade. Every day it seems our government is focused on how to corrupt our nation even more.

In the preceding verses (vss. 1-4), Simon Peter has spoken to us about escaping the corruption that is in the world. He now furthers that theme with some well-chosen Christian attributes. Moral excellence is high on the apostle’s list. Morality is “conformity to the rules of right conduct.” Those rules are easily discovered in Holy Scripture. It’s not that the rules are not there, they are simply being ignored.

Knowledge is a questionable comodity today, especially in Congress. Self-control and Perseverance are “factors of clear and steady persistence in a beneficial course of action.” It is intended for everyone, not simply for those who are ably focused on themselves. The lack of Godliness is embarassing for both our Congress and our Nation! It fleshes out in Brotherly Kindness, yet every day human kindness becomes more difficult to discover. Far too often, we just “do each other in” before “they do us.”

Congress makes some colossal mistakes! But the “error-makers” are the same individuals that “we the people” elected! Spanking Congress starts with the abolition of sin within ourselves. Jesus Christ died on the Cross to abolish sin. We have to open our lives to Him for all to become right. Have you opened your life to Christ? I implore you to do it today! We cannot be effective in influencing others correctly until we allow Christ to influence us.

Heartily in Christ Jesus,

(Dado III)

Gene L. Jeffries, Th.D.
Springdale, Arkansas 72764
United States of America

“We never know that Christ is all we need until He becomes all that we have.” – Corrie ten Boom