Be sure

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 Saviour Jesus Christ. – 2 Peter 1.10-11

In an earlier verse we read about being diligent and how important it is to be diligent about adding to our faith.  

Here Peter says to ‘be even more diligent’ about something.  He says to be ‘even more diligent’ to make our ‘calling and election sure.’ 

Though we never want to get anyone to doubt their genuine salvation it is important that everyone who professes Christ be sure of their salvation. There is no such thing as a maybe salvation or an ‘I think so’ salvation. We are told in another place to examine ourselves to make sure that we are in the faith. Hebrews lets us know that there are plenty professors who are not possessors. 

Self-examination should be part of the believer’s lief. It goes a little farther what just ‘yeah, I prayed a prayer a few years ago.’ Professors need to be sure that it was not only words, but that there is faith behind those words. 

The truth is that is there is real, living faith in our lives they are going to be different. If there is no works than the faith is proclaim in dead faith. 

None of us are perfect. We are never going to be totally sin-less. But if there is no difference between us and the world then we need to do some checking and we need to be extra diligent about it. There is nothing more important for us to be sure about.