2Pe 1:10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
2Pe 1:11 For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
2Pe 1:12 Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.
A constant reminder.
Don't we all need constant reminders?
We live in a world that would love to take away any reminders of salvation through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior.
The reminders that we live in a fierce battle between good and evil.
Satan would have us living with blinders on, thick, tight blinders that seem all but impossible to remove. He doesn't want us to realize that we are actually, truly, really, honestly FIGHTING for our eternal life.
He comes up with so very many tricks to fool us. He'll say we're trying to work out our own salvation when in truth only Christ can save us, but doesn't God's word say this to us…
Php 2:12 ... work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
We are REALLY told this… really and truly!
Php 2:13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
Php 2:14 Do all things without murmurings and disputings:
Php 2:15 That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
Php 2:16 Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.
Work out our OWN salvation with FEAR and TREMBLING.
For it is GOD which worketh IN US both to will and to do of HIS good pleasure.
God work IN US.
We have to CHOOSE to do ALL things WITHOUT murmurings and disputings.
Just as we HAVE to choose to ADD to our faith and not simply stop at believing, but make that belief a reality.
We have to do ALL things without murmurings and disputings because then we will be BLAMELESS and HARMLESS-the SONS of GOD- without rebuke, in the MIDST of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom we will SHINE as LIGHTS in the world.
HOLDING forth the WORD of LIFE that we may rejoice in the DAY of CHRIST. That we have NOT run in VAIN, neither labored in VAIN.
2Pe 1:10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
2Pe 1:11 For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
2Pe 1:12 Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.
IF YE DO THESE THINGS YE SHALL NEVER FALL.
Do what things?
These things--
2Pe 1:5 '…add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge
2Pe 1:6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
2Pe 1:7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
2Pe 1:8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. '
We are NOT to be idle! We are NOT to stop at faith! We are NOT to live disregarding God's instructions, God's will. Yet so many do, so many could careless about God or His will. So many get discouraged because Satan is fighting against their walk with Christ. Satan is pulling out all stops to get us to turn from God, and barring that to turn us down a path lined with a false god.
The truth in God is NOT a path that is wide and easy, but narrow and HARD to traverse, hard to even find it!
Mat 7:14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
FEW there be that find it!
You'd think it'd be easy to find because we are given so much incredible information leading us to the path of Salvation through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. But it's not easy to find, because only FEW will find it. Why will only a few find it? Because only a few will be willing to walk that narrow way in a world where walking the broad way is the norm. So many things will keep people from finding that narrow way. And Satan will be behind every single one of those ways. There is a REAL battle we are in, a daily, hourly, minutely battle and yet because this war is fought on a spiritual plane, affecting our physical plane we don't often recognize the war but attribute all of the trials and tribulations huge and tiny to just being life.
Calling Satan out, pointing at His dealings isn't something he wants done, he'd much rather we ignore his presence. As long as we ignore him then he can go on his merry way attacking us right and left, tripping us up and hiding the hand being held out to help us up. He wants us down in the filth of sin wallowing in it never seeking to reach for the ONE who can clean us of the filth he is trying to drown us in.
By the grace and mercy of our God may we have our eyes wide open to all the attacks Satan sets up for us, and when we see these attacks may we seek shelter in our Savior! May we don all the armor, all the protection that our SAVIOR offers to us through His amazing LOVE.
Help us LORD.
Save us LORD JESUS!
In Your love, in YOUR righteousness now and forever and ever!
Amen.
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