What would have to change for you to become godlier? Our inclination is to answer this question by listing changes other people should make. I would be godlier if everyone would quit bugging me, or if I didn't have such terrible influences, or if the church would offer this or that program.
We imagine our actions as mechanical reflexes. I got angry because you broke your word. I would be patient if people weren't so annoying. I might forgive when those who hurt me stop sinning.
But our godliness doesn't depend on others. Growing in godliness requires mercy, kindness, humility, longsuffering, and forgiveness because others have de-merited the graces we must show them.Godliness is hard because people are sinners.
But the good news is, you and I are responsible for our own change, not the change of others. God calls each of us to practice godliness by putting off the deeds of the old man and putting on the new man (3:9–10). God is calling you to change, to become less like your old self and more like Jesus, even if the people around you won't.
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