Almost all games have prerequisites built into them… for example, we can’t unlock the most powerful abilities on our character’s skill tree until we have achieved the basic ones first.  Mastering the highest level abilities in the game requires us to have already developed and demonstrated the right combination of “prerequisite” capabilities, as well the necessary amount of strength and power to perform them.  What good does it do for us to find a powerful sword that is too heavy for our character to carry, or unlock a new power that requires more stamina than we possess?

The beginning of a believer’s skill tree is faith, and the final gift we are trying to produce is love.  But demonstrating the true love of Christ also has prerequisites that each of us must fulfill first… we cannot show His perfect love from a place of faithlessness, ignorance, impatience, unkindness, or lacking basic self-discipline.  As followers of the Lord we must intentionally develop and cultivate each of these areas to become capable of showing His definition of love to others.  Love that doesn’t display these characteristics isn’t His love.

But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Peter 1:5-8

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