2 Peter 1:3-7

"To those who have obtained like precious faith:

with us by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ: Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For he who lacks these things is shortsighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.

Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble; for so an entrance will be supplied to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
For this reason I will not be negligent to remind you always of these things, though you know and are established in the present truth."

Christianity seems so simple. It says if you do the things in bold you will never stumble. So...if it is possible for us not to sin and He has given us everything we need to walk in righteousness, then why don't we?? We say that it is impossible but the Word says the complete opposite. We don't like to do it because it hurts. It's supposed to hurt though, that's why it's called dying. It just blows my mind away that we try to make it so complicated yet it is so simple and we still can't follow him. If we are established in the PRESENT truth, not past or future truth, but NOW, we will walk in love, self-control, diligence, the fruit of the Spirit, not the fruits. The fruit of the Spirit is the characteristics of a Christian..... God is calling us on to perfection yet we can't move until we forsake the sin. How can we grow if God has to keep feeding us the same baby food we can't move on. If we keep going around the same bush, if we refuse to repent and move on, it's sin. We talked Tuesday about a good conscience. Do we have a good conscience in what the passage above is talking about? I would say that is a valid question. We need to allow Him to show us our heart and change.