Father's Day and focusing on the mission

So today was my first Father's Day and it was a great one. If all I had done today was hang out with my family I would have been happy, but today was an even bigger day for the Brueseke's. For my Father's Day gift Megan and Boden got me a framed copy of our newly minted Brueseke Family Mission. It's taken from 2 Peter 1:3-11. I have been meditating on these verses for several weeks now and I believe they provide the baseline for what our walk with God is all about. To be a follower of God we can really only have one mission and we all have to have it, that is the Great Commission, to go into all the world and share the Gospel. To do that and as we do that we grow and learn more about God, gaining understanding to how he wants us to do life.

In 2 Peter, Peter list characteristics: faith, virtue, knowledge, self-control, steadfastness, godliness, brotherly affection, and love. He says if we grow in these qualities we can not be ineffective in our knowledge of God. Further he says if we practice these qualities, we can not fall. And finally, that by living out these qualities, there will be richly provided for us an entrance into heaven!

So we are striving to live out these qualities, growing in them, and gaining understanding of God, knowing that by doing so not only will we keep from falling, but we will be effective for God, effective for the Great Commission.