Election Sure?

April 16, 2023

With a note of sarcasm, we ask how can one make his calling and election sure if in

fact he can do nothing towards salvation? Can we decide to answer the call of God,

“Here am I send me”; or are we responsible in any way for our choices? Does God

call everyone, but the majority rebel and refuse? Can one refuse or resist the call of

God? There are those who declare themselves special because of predestination and

divine election, who are in fact arrogant. They use the world’s definition for

predestination - God’s choice not your choice, instead of allowing the Bible to

comment upon the Bible. Scripture would have us to be conformed to the image of

God’s son and makes it clear that this is His desire and definition of predestination

(Ephesians 1:3 ff). You and I have been called to conform to the image of Christ,

but we are always willing worshipers. Too often we want God to fit into our plans

instead of fitting into His. Even though “an inheritance shall be ministered unto us

abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” (2

Peter 1:10). Growth is critical for every child, and no less for the children of God,

so we add faith, virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness, brotherly

kindness, and love in abundance so that we behave more and more like the one we

adore. Otherwise, we become blind and cannot discern the future, forgetting that He

paid the price we should have paid for our old sins (2 Peter 1:9). How sad when our

lethargy catches up and we trip over our selfishness, again being blinded by our

lusts. Our Lord is not only able, but willing to forgive us again (seventy times seven

in one day) as he freely gives us all things (Matthew 6:33) by the hands of those

who are in the world. And above all things he provides for us “everything that

pertains to life and godliness through the knowledge of him that has called us to

glory and virtue (even Jesus)” (2 Peter 1:3). He devoted his life for your glory, so

will you vote for your virtue?

Kenneth E. Morrison