Living Out 2 Peter 1:10–11
This past month, we’ve been focusing on building community, real, life giving, Christ centered community. The kind that asks us to step out of our comfort zones and dare to be vulnerable with our brothers and sisters in Christ.
We’ve talked about what it means to share in each other’s joys, to walk through struggles together, and to grow spiritually side by side. To move with courage toward relationships where we can truly do life together, people who will encourage us, laugh with us, weep with us, and be a strength we can draw from.
A village.
A place of support in both the good and the hard.
A people who choose to love, even when it costs.
But now what? Do we stay within the comfort of our circle, living only for ourselves and the few we’ve grown close to?Or is there something more?
A Call to Go Deeper
In 2 Peter 1:10–11, we are reminded:
“Therefore, brothers and sisters, make every effort to confirm your calling and election, because 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.”
This passage calls us to action. To move for Christ and not remain stagnant. To not simply receive, but to respond. Community is not the destination, it’s the foundation. It strengthens us, equips us, and prepares us…
So that we can go out and live out our calling.
From Calling to Action
Each of us has been uniquely called, and that calling was never meant to stay comfortable. For some, it may be right where you are, serving at a local school, feeding the homeless, helping a neighbor in need, or pouring into marriages or mentoring youth.
For others, it may look like stepping into deeper or more challenging spaces, supporting women affected by domestic violence, advocating against human trafficking, or serving on mission trips and outreach efforts. No calling is too small, and no act of obedience is insignificant. But calling requires movement. It asks us to step beyond comfort and into transformation, to shift from simply receiving to actively pouring out.
So let’s ask ourselves:
- Where is God calling me to step out?
- Who is He placing in front of me to serve?
- Am I living a faith that is active, or just comfortable?
Stay Rooted First
Before we pour out, we must stay filled. We need to be intentional spend time with God, read His Word and pray.
Be still and listen for His voice. Because the truth is we can easily become comfortable.We can get used to receiving, being poured into, and never stepping out to give.
But we are called to more. Jesus didn’t call us to keep Him to ourselves. He called us to go out into this world and make disciples (Matthew 28:19–20).
Living a Transformative Faith
So let’s not settle for surface-level faith. Let’s be women who live in a way that reflects Jesus, authentically, boldly, and with love.
Sometimes this can look like:
- Feeding the hungry
- Ministering to single moms
- Serving at pregnancy centers
- Going on mission trips
- Praying for others
- Meeting practical needs
Other times, it’s simply sharing your story. Your testimony, your pain, your healing, and most of all your redemption story which has the power to change someone else’s life.
When we look around, we see a world full of hurt. Every day we hear countless stories of pain, brokenness, darkness. But what if the very things that break our heart are the very places God is calling us to step into? What if your compassion is your calling? What if your story is someone else’s breakthrough?
Let’s press into God and begin to walk that out in order to bring love and healing to the broken places of this world.
Live It Out
Let’s live in a way that reflects Jesus so genuinely that others are drawn to imitate our faith, not because we are perfect,
but because He is real in us. We are one body with many parts and each of us has a role and a purpose.
So let’s be spiritually productive. Let’s serve. Let’s love. Let’s go!
Let’s be courageous and together, let’s bring the transformative love of Jesus to others so that more hearts are healed,
more lives are restored, and more souls come to know Him. Let’s make Heaven crowded!
“For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.” -Ephesians 2:10 (NKJV)
