Today on Insight for Living from Chuck Swindall, you want to have purpose, you want to be useful

and fruitful in life, begin with faith, add to faith a moral courage, not standing

aloof but standing alone, but necessary. It's standing like a steer and a blizzard.

When God created man and woman, all of us were instilled with a natural drive to lead productive

and fruitful lives. Occasional idleness is refreshing, but most of the time we prefer accomplishment

over boredom. And that's what makes growing older so difficult or getting sick. When we're

sidelined, we feel a sense of loss that comes from our inability to produce. Today on Insight for

Living, Chuck Swindall continues a message he started yesterday. We're looking at second Peter

for guidelines on leaving constructive and fulfilling lives. Today's message is titled

to be useful and fruitful. Here's how.

Tucked away in a rather obscure section of the Bible is a small letter that includes only 61

verses. It is the letter of second Peter. In the first verse, the apostle opens his letter

by talking first about the writer himself, then the recipients, and then some things having to do

with faith. Simon Peter, a bonds servant, and a apostle of Jesus Christ. Now, that's the man

who wrote the letter. Notice those who received the letter to those who have received a faith

of the same kind as ours. Now, that tells us that the people who received the letter are different

from the one who wrote the letter. I think he has referenced to the fact that they were Gentiles

and he is Jewish. They have received a faith the same kind as the believing Jews by the righteousness

of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ. In the second verse, you will notice Peter then talks about

grace and peace and knowledge. The reason this transfer is possible is because of the grace of

God, that which God does for the sinner, which we do not deserve, which we do not earn, and which we

can never repay, he gives us by his grace this sense of peace, a tranquility of soul. He comes to us in

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