By Maxie Heppell<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“So don’t lose a minute in building on what you’ve been given,<\/em> 2 Peter 1:5 The Message<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n This year is the beginning of new things for a whole bunch of people close to me. New jobs, new environments, new beginnings and all the excitement and trepidation that goes with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n One thing that is so nice about this is the chance to start a new measure-myself booklet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You know? That brand new page you turn over in your relationships at work, your attitude towards authority, your commitment to the task that is assigned to you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But according to Petrus, it shouldn\u2019t just be a new work thing. According to him, it is supposed to form part of the daily routine of everyone who calls himself or herself a follower of Jesus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The faith we have received, it is a gift after all \u2013 the cake plate on which we build.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Now it is filled with layers of good character in which I will try to do the right thing in every situation. Which will mean I have to learn what is the right thing to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I do this when I dig deeper into my knowledge of the Lord, when I discover where the air pockets in me have been understood, so that I can fill them with solid truths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The layers become more and I add discipline of a spiritual nature. That which asks something of me. Time, most of the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When I do this, the stack becomes easier because the more time I devote to building my Godly character, the more passionate patience I have with others who are building their own stacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Patience and warm, friendly love from the cup of my grateful memory is then generously poured over for everyone around me to enjoy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When we do this, says Peter, not a day will pass in which we will not be rewarded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Those who work for a reward in their bank account every 30 days, will quickly find that it is never enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Those who work for the praise of the Lord, be surprised with daily bonuses in the most unexpected places!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Maxie Heppell “So don’t lose a minute in building on what you’ve been given,complementing your basic faith with good…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":201,"featured_media":168851,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1114],"tags":[682],"class_list":["post-170382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-en","tag-inspiration-for-the-week"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1114,"label":"Blog"}],"post_tag":[{"value":682,"label":"inspiration for the week"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/sincerely-media-8W6IlpFpDw0-unsplash-scaled-1-1024x683.jpg",1024,683,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Maxie Heppell","author_link":"https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/en\/author\/maxie\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":1114,"name":"Blog","slug":"blog-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1114,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1093,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","cat_ID":1114,"category_count":1093,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Blog","category_nicename":"blog-en","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":682,"name":"inspiration for the week","slug":"inspiration-for-the-week","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":682,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":7,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0"}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/sincerely-media-8W6IlpFpDw0-unsplash-scaled-1.jpg","fimg_url":"https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/sincerely-media-8W6IlpFpDw0-unsplash-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/201"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wereldwyd.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
complementing your basic faith with good character,<\/em>
spiritual understanding,<\/em>
alert discipline,<\/em>
passionate patience,<\/em>
reverent wonder,<\/em>
warm friendliness,<\/em>
and generous love,<\/em>
each dimension fitting into and developing the others.<\/em>
With these qualities active and growing in your lives,<\/em>
no grass will grow under your feet,<\/em>
no day will pass without its reward as you mature<\/em>
in your experience of our Master Jesus.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n