Make Your Calling And Election Sure

[Thompson, Darryl]

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Ellen G. White Estate, Devotional for February 27
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Make Your Calling And Election Sure

Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and
election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: for so an
entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting
kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. 2 Peter 1:10, 11

Here a life insurance policy is offered us which insures for us eternal
life in the kingdom of God. I ask you to study these words of the
apostle Peter. There is understanding and intelligence in every
sentence. By taking hold upon the Lifegiver, who gave His life for us,
we receive eternal life.
We are each deciding our eternal destiny, and it rests wholly with us
whether we shall gain eternal life. Will we live the lessons given in
the Word of God, Christ's great lesson book? It is the grandest, and yet
the most simply arranged and easily understood book ever prepared for
giving an education in proper behaviour, in speech, in manners, in
affection. It is the only book that will prepare human beings for the
life that measures with the life of God. And those who make this Word
their daily study are the only ones who are worthy of receiving a
diploma entitling them to educate and train the children for entrance
into the higher school, to be crowned as victorious overcomers.
Christ Jesus is the only judge of the fitness of human agents to receive
eternal life. The gates of the holy city will open to those who have
been humble, meek, lowly followers of His, having learned their lessons
from Him, and received from Him their life insurance policy, forming
characters after the divine similitude.
When the ransomed are redeemed from the earth, the city of God will be
opened to you. . . . Then the harp will be placed in your hand, and your
voice will be raised in songs of praise to God and to the Lamb, by whose
great sacrifice you are made partakers of His nature and given an
immortal inheritance in the kingdom of God.

>From Devotional: Our Father Cares, pp. 60, 61.