2 Peter 1:10 – Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to make your calling and election sure, for if you practice these qualities you will never fall.
Lord God, you’re not done with me yet. There is so much more that I need to add to my faith. There are so many areas in which you want me to grow. And I need the reminder. It’s easy, so easy, God, to fall into laxity in faith, to be content with the way things are. It’s so easy to even think to myself that I’ve arrived at faith’s final destination. But here through Peter you remind me that I have a long way to go. You urge me to add virtue to faith, knowledge to virtue, self-control to knowledge and more. You urge me to be transformed by the power of your Word and the working of your Spirit. And this takes work. It takes repentance. It takes study. It takes meditation. It takes discipline and practice. Lord God, help me to keep on working with your Word, to keep on hearing your Word. Open my heart to keep on receiving the work of your Spirit, the chiseling work of your Word, and the refining work of life’s trials and troubles. These are the way that you make my calling and election sure. Keep me from becoming lax or complacent. Keep me always working in and with your Word and in this way, Lord God, you will make my calling and election sure. Amen.