"Due Deligence"

Thttps://www.crabtreevalleybaptist.org/spiritual-due-diligence/

The term “Due Diligence” is used in the business world to describe the careful examination of all issues involved in a transaction. A failure to exercise due diligence could be a financial disaster.

“Due Diligence” is also important in spiritual matters. In 2 Peter 1:5-6 (KJV) we are admonished to “giving all diligence” to our faith by adding virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness, brotherly kindness, and charity.  In simple language, we are expected to grow in our faith, to advance in our understanding of God and what God requires and expects of us.

The faith that God requires of us is a simple faith totally dependent upon Christ and Christ alone. Faith in Christ alone is the foundation upon which we build and grow into spiritual maturity.  When we add to our faith the ingredients listed in 2 Peter 1:5-6, we are told in verse 8 “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” (NIV). On the contrary, “If anyone does not have them, he is nearsighted and blind, and has forgotten that he has been cleansed from his past sins.”

Compare 2 Peter 1-8 with Hebrews 6 which says, “let us leave the elementary teachings about Christ and go on to maturity.  In the physical realm, it is important for infants to become children, then adolescents, then adults. We expect no less.  If this is true in the physical world how much more important is it for our spiritual growth to advance in the same manner.

We cannot grow spiritually without due diligence.  Charles Spurgeon, the Prince of Preachers, inspired by the writing in 2 Peter says that we need due diligence in our lives in regards to courage to do what is right, in regards to Scripture so that we “let the word of Christ dwell in us richly,” in regards to self-control in regards to how we use our body, and how we feed our soul, in how we control our lips, life, heart and thought, in regards to allowing the Holy Spirit to give us patience so that we will not murmur or be depressed in affliction.

With “due diligence” spiritually we can make God’s glory the object of our lives. In so doing we will experience the “joy of our salvation”.

In His Love,

Charles

 

 My thoughts: I got this site when I searched the internet for a spiritual meaning of "due diligence". It is an awesome devotional God wanted me to read, AND apply to my life as well as share.

 

I heard the words, "due deligence" in my mind when I woke up this morning.  I googled and found the legal meaning. I thought there may be a spiritual meaning. This site came up. It is so awesome how God speaks to us through His Holy Spirit's words, and through others via blogs such as this: 

https://www.crabtreevalleybaptist.org/spiritual-due-diligence/.

Thank you Charles for posting this. God bless your ministry.

Praise You, Lord God Almighty who is and was and is to come. Hallelujah to the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

 Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace to all men with whom God is pleased. Thank You Lord Jesus that because You came and died for our sins, God is pleased with us when we ask You to forgive us and come live in our hearts. Thank You for dying for our sins, original sin, and cleansing us from all unrighteousness when we confess our sins as You are faithful and just to forgive us our sins continually. Show us our sins. Cleanse our hearts. Draw us to Jesus that we may follow Your ways all the days of our lives. 

 Father God, thank You for sending Jesus, and sending Your Holy Spirit.  Thank You that the Holy Spirit's voice was the first voice I heard this morning.

 Also thank You for speaking to me when I first wake up at other times like the morning I heard "Clarion Call", and the morning I saw the evil queen from the Disney movie of Snow White.  You said, "Lying spirits," and I knew that I am to pray against lying spirits that blind people's eyes. Lord, open our eyes to see Jesus, the way, the truth, the life, the only way back to You, the true and living God. Restore our broken fellowship with You.  In Jesus' name, Amen.