APPOINTMENTS, AMBITIONS, AND ASSURANCE
SCRIPTURE: “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

Have you ever considered how accountable many businesses want you and me to be when it comes to confirming or postponing our appointments? [This is certainly needful], Most, if not all, have long practiced charging you a fee if you forget your appointment, or fail to contact them within twenty-four hours to postpone it. Without a doubt, one’s thoughtlessness and apathy towards the greatest of all divine “appointments,” is of far greater significance. The command found in today’s title scripture reveals that our loving Lord desires His own to have assurance of our salvation. [See 1 John 5:11-13] In God’s own eyes, those whom He called or elected before the foundation of the world are
already “seated in heavenly places” in Christ. Many reject this clearly taught scriptural principle, despite its declaration in Romans 8:29, 30, Ephesians 1:5, 11, Colossians 3:12, 1 Thessalonians 1:4, and 2 Timothy 2:10.
The Lord has assigned us a role in seeking our own heart assurance concerning this precious gift called saving faith. He instructs us to be in earnest pursuit of godly virtues, and that we be on “the grow” in Christlikeness. (It’s why we’ve been left here after our second birth). Do you, dear reader, possess a strong ambition to increasingly look like Him who purchased you with His blood? View the list in 2 Peter 1:5-7. If we set our heart on adding to our faith, goodness, knowledge, self-control, perseverance, godliness, mutual affection, and love, God promises to us an abundant welcome into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ (2 Peter1:11). From an eternal perspective, such divinely inspired ambitions have no earthly equivalent!
PRAYER: Dear Father, we humbly ask You to renew our heart ambitions to live out loud each day, boldly and purposefully pursuing what pleases You, for Your glory and delight. Thank You in Jesus’ name; amen!
By Sis. Denise Diggs
already “seated in heavenly places” in Christ. Many reject this clearly taught scriptural principle, despite its declaration in Romans 8:29, 30, Ephesians 1:5, 11, Colossians 3:12, 1 Thessalonians 1:4, and 2 Timothy 2:10.
The Lord has assigned us a role in seeking our own heart assurance concerning this precious gift called saving faith. He instructs us to be in earnest pursuit of godly virtues, and that we be on “the grow” in Christlikeness. (It’s why we’ve been left here after our second birth). Do you, dear reader, possess a strong ambition to increasingly look like Him who purchased you with His blood? View the list in 2 Peter 1:5-7. If we set our heart on adding to our faith, goodness, knowledge, self-control, perseverance, godliness, mutual affection, and love, God promises to us an abundant welcome into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ (2 Peter1:11). From an eternal perspective, such divinely inspired ambitions have no earthly equivalent!
PRAYER: Dear Father, we humbly ask You to renew our heart ambitions to live out loud each day, boldly and purposefully pursuing what pleases You, for Your glory and delight. Thank You in Jesus’ name; amen!
By Sis. Denise Diggs
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Amen! ?
Making a surety of ones call and election is as important as not being conformed to this world but by the renewing of the mind, being transformed [upon the effect of the seed, which is the word of God] and thereof having a lifestyle of worship and faithfulness as reasonable for eternity-now and eternity-yet. "Quench not the Spirit." Amen!
Amen and Amen!