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You can get a grip on your life and take control with the right source.

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[Steve Myers] You ever feel that life is kind of difficult to hang on to, and get a handle on? Well, get a grip. Get a grip is what the Bible recommends for us to do when we feel like we're in those kind of situations. In fact, it talks a lot about how we can order our life, and how we can have the kind of control that we need. In fact, we find that over in the book of 2 Peter – we find a whole list of different things that can help us to get a grip.

So when you look right at the very beginning of chapter 1, if we begin around verse 5 or so, it says that we have to add certain things to our faith – you know, that we believe and we trust God – but we can't just be stagnant. We've got to get a grip on the other traits that will help us to have the right perspective. And so it says, "Add to your faith virtue, to your virtue knowledge, to your knowledge self-control." And that grip on yourself – if we get a grip on ourself, if we control our own thinking, it's possible, then, to be a godly person, the kind of person that God wants us to be. And so he says to add these things. And in fact, in verse 8 he says, "If these are yours and abound, you won't be barren or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ" (2 Peter 1:5-8).

And so, it is possible to get a grip on life, have that kind of control that we need, but to realize it's not just because we're hanging on or we're determining to do these things. In fact, he says right here in verse 3 – if we just step back, just a little bit – he says, "He's given us His divine power, and by that divine power," it says, "it gives us all things that pertain to life and godliness" (2 Peter 1:3)

So you want a grip in life? Remember where that grip begins. It begins by having that faith and trust in God, because the power to get a grip come through Him. So pray about that. Ask Him to help you to get a grip and to add all of those wonderful traits to your faith.

That's BT Daily. We'll see you next time.