moral excellence

“It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it. People will forgive mistakes, because mistakes are usually of the mind, mistakes of judgment. But people will not easily forgive the mistakes of the heart, the ill intention, the bad motives, the prideful justifying cover-up of the first mistake.”

Steven R. Covey

"For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust. Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence, and in your moral excellence, knowledge, and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love...
For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they render you neither useless nor unfruitful in the true knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ."

2 Peter 1, NASB

"For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue..."

2 Peter 1, ESV

Lead me in the way everlasting...
It's time to grow up.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.

Bob Dylan

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is dong its best, night and day, to make you everybody else, means to light the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
e.e. cummings

My heart rejoices in the LORD;
In the LORD my horn is lifted high
My mouth boasts over my enemies
For I delight in your deliverance

There is no one holy like the LORD
There is no one besides you
There is no Rock like our God

I'm alive, I'm alive, I'm alive, I'm alive

You alone are Father
You alone are Good
You alone are Saviour
You alone are God

despising its shame

http://www.desiringgod.org/articles/what-does-it-mean-for-jesus-to-despise-shame