MAKING YOUR CALLING AND ELECTION SURE

 ANCHOR OF LIFE DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE for SATURDAY, 3RD DECEMBER, 2022.

Topic: MAKING YOUR CALLING AND ELECTION SURE 

MEMORIZE: “Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble” – 2 Peter 1:10.

SCRIPTURE READING: 2 Peter 1:5-11

“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.” 

EXPOSITION:

“Making Your Calling and Election Sure” – 2 Peter 1:10.

Man was created by God to bring Him honour and praise, but got driven away by sins and got is relationship with God broken. Hence there is need for reconnection. Jesus Christ came to the scene to redeem mankind back to God through His sinless blood, atoning death and glorious resurrection and bodily ascension to heaven. Hence there is need to witness this truth to the world unashamedly, warning the world of sin and presenting every man perfect in Christ Jesus through the word of truth accurately taught to be applied in our day to day living.

To be able to do this effectively, there is need for you and I to be sure of our calling and election and be able to proof it to the world convincingly. People only believe and are ready to follow you only when they see evidence of God’s presence and His calling in you. On the other hand, the wolves are in the street, parading themselves as ministers of God. They are ravenous beasts, delighting in devouring the innocent and the helpless. If you are not on your feet, to stand against them, they may accomplish them mission over you (may God forbids). 

Therefore, as ministers of God and the children of God, must put on the spiritual virtues as prescribed by the word of God. ““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.” 2 Peter 1:5-7. And according to Ephesians 6:11,13, we must put on the whole armour of God in order to withstand the devil and all his agents who are deceiving people in the world.

PRAYER POINTS: Lord, with you in me and by me, help me to make my calling and election sure and be fruitful in your purpose for my life and ministry in Jesus name.

DAILY BIBLE READING IN A YEAR –  Ephesians 1-3.