Oct
19
2011
Welcome to the Ragland Family Blog NEWS FROM PERU.
This blog is so that we can update you with the ministry going on
in Peru, and so you can interact with us and pray for us. We
have been blessed beyond measure with so many wonderful
friends and family, who share in this ministry. Glory to our God!
2nd Peter 1:3-11 is one of the foundation passages for our ministry. It is a reminder of who is at work in us, and His promises are the foundation of our hope.
3 His divine power has given useverything we need for life and godliness
through our knowledge of him who called usby his own glory and goodness.
4 Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises so that
through them youmay participate in the divine nature and escape the
corruption in the world caused by evil desires
5 For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to
goodness, knowledge;
6 and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to
perseverance, godliness; p
7 and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love.
8 For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you
from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus
Christ.
9 But if anyone does not have them, he is nearsighted and blind, and has
forgotten that he has been cleansed from his past sins.
10 Therefore, my brothers, be all the more eager to make your calling and
election sure. For if you do these things, you will never fall,
11 and you will receive a rich welcome into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and
Savior Jesus Christ.
Our job is not to change the world. According to the scriptures
the world’s course has already been set by our sin (1 John 2:17).
Though we have not been called to change the world, we have
been called to pull as many out of darkness as God has put
before us. We feel that God has given us an impossible task. No
man can open the eyes of his own dark soul and add the light of
truth, much less, another man’s. This can only be done by
someone greater!! It can only be done by Almighty God!! Our
faith in Christ compels us into this dark world to share the light of
Christ. Our trust is that through His work in us, His divine power,
andHis great and precious promises, that others will come into a
saving knowledge of who Jesus Christ is and escape the
corruption in the world.
Thank you Dale, Tina, Hannah, and Joshua