Make Your Call and Election Sure!

In 2 Peter 1:5-11, Peter tells us what we must do in order to make our call and election sure in order to possess a home in the everlasting kingdom of Jesus. He writes, “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. For he who lacks these things is shortsighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins. Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble; for so an entrance will be supplied to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.” Christians must strive to possess all the characteristics that Peter has stated. When we possess and put these characteristics to work in our daily life we know that we will never stumble and that we will gain an everlasting kingdom. Peter also says that if we lack these things then we are shortsighted, having forgotten that we have been cleansed from our sins. It is important that we understand the great sacrifice of Jesus on our behalf. When we do, then we will be motivated to live for Him. This will be evidenced by the way we talk, and act every day. May we all strive to be the kind of Christians that Jesus wants us to be.