In 1 Peter today, Peter talks about the importance of faith.

How without faith, we don’t have a lot to stand on.  It is faith that gives us up in this world, and hope for the next.  It is faith that keeps us going when life gets hard.  It is faith that dusts us off, picks us up, dries our eyes, comforts us in our sorrows.

Faith makes it all possible.

And, because faith is so important, we must take care of our faith. We must nurture our faith. We must allow our faith to grow.

We must support our faith through our actions.

Peter writes these words this morning:

5 For this very reason, you must make every effort to support your faith with goodness, and goodness with knowledge, 6 and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with endurance, and endurance with godliness, 7 and godliness with mutual affection, and mutual affection with love.

Peter tell us to make sure we are doing the kind of things in our life to support our faith.

Our faith does not exist in a vacuum.  Our faith does not exist on an island.  Our faith is a gift to us from God. God calls us to faith because He knows we need faith to fully live.

But, in our lives, what are we doing to support our faith? What are we doing see our faith grow?

Are we reading?  Praying?  Serving? Worshiping?

Are we doing the things that our faith needs to grow?

Our faith will not grow on its own.  We will not become a stronger Christian by just “wanting” to be one.

Our faith is the most precious gift we’ve been given.  Faith is one of God’s great gifts to us.

What are we doing support it?