His divine power has given us everything we need to experience life and to reflect God’s true nature through the knowledge of the One who called us by His glory and virtue. Through these things, we have received God’s great and valuable promises, so we might escape the corruption of worldly desires and share in the divine nature. To achieve this, you will need to add virtue to your faith, and then knowledge to your virtue; to knowledge, add discipline; to discipline, add endurance; to endurance, add godliness; to godliness, add affection for others as sisters and brothers; and to affection, at last, add love. For if you possess these traits and multiply them, then you will never be ineffective or unproductive in your relationship with our Lord Jesus the Anointed.

2 Peter 1:3-8 (The Voice)

You already have all that you require for a godly life.

According to the Apostle Peter, once you receive Christ as your Saviour, you are made a divine partaker of His Nature. You have Christ's nature within you, which gives you the ability to live a godly life in spite of weaknesses and temptations. You will live a free and fruitful life in Christ as long as you continue to walk in the truth of the gospel.

Since salvation is a free gift of God, we cannot add anything to what God has done. However, we get to work out our salvation through living by faith. A godly life is seen in growing the character of Christ and embracing our true identity in Him.

In the context of 2 Peter, faith refers to our salvation, and because we are united in Christ, we are able to live by faith in the assurance of that salvation. Peter exhorts us to make every effort to add these seven qualities to that faith. They are virtue, knowledge, disciple, endurance, godliness, brotherly affection and love.

God has lavishly and generously provided everything we could possibly need to fulfil our divine calling. This means that no believer can claim that leading a godly life in an ungodly world is difficult. The Spirit has already anointed and equipped each of us to fervently pursue a godly life and He will continue to help us on our faith journey.

We have all we need in Christ. But if we don't find true rest in the gospel's truth, we will continue to feel unworthy, inadequate and unlovable, and nothing we do will ever seem like enough for God. It is through the presence and power of His divine nature that God gives you the ability to choose good over evil as well as the will and the power to do right by Him (Philippians 2:11–13). Only believe!