Sometimes the Christian life feels like we don’t quite have all the right ingredients- like we’ve chosen a complicated recipe that we can quite make according to plan. In order to get something on the table, we substitute ingredients and kind of guess at what the end product is supposed to be. The end result is often a far cry from what the recipe really called for. According to Peter, though, we have everything we need for life and godliness. Part of that is our own need to “make every effort” in applying Peter’s teachings.