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The Heavenly Election, June 3
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
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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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