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The Heavenly Election, January 23
Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling
and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall.
2
Peter 1:10
.
This is the only election regarding which the Bible speaks. Fallen
in sin, we may become partakers of the divine nature and attain to a
knowledge far in advance of any scientific learning. By partaking of the
flesh and the blood of our crucified Lord, we shall gain life eternal. In the
sixth of John we read: “Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood,
hath eternal life” (
John 6:54
). “It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh
profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they
are life” (
verse 63
).
None need lose eternal life. Everyone who chooses daily to learn
of the heavenly Teacher will make his calling and election sure. Let us
humble our hearts before God and follow on to know Him whom to know
aright is life eternal.
“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 are your life-insurance papers. This is not an insurance policy
the value of which someone else will receive after your death; it is a policy
that assures
you
a
life
measuring with the life of God—even eternal life.
O what an assurance! what a hope! Let us ever reveal to the world that
we are seeking for a better country, even a heavenly. Heaven has been
made for us, and we want a part in it. We cannot afford to allow anything
to separate us from God and heaven. In this life we must be partakers of
the divine nature. Brethren and sisters, you have only one life to live. O
let it be a life of virtue, a life hid with Christ in God!
Unitedly we are to help one another gain perfection of character. To
this end, we are to cease all criticism. Onward and still onward we may
advance toward perfection, until at last there will be ministered unto us an
abundant entrance into the heavenly kingdom.
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