Jesus is coming. It might be soon. It might still be some time away. We need to live our lives in such a way as to be ready for the Master. It is like a job and the boss wants us doing our best but also getting training and putting the training into practice well, so we might even be promoted when they come to visit the site. It will be good to get their approval. How can we do this as believing disciples of Jesus Christ? We might not live to see that day of his coming, so we also need to live to be worthy of the resurrection he will bring. How can we do all this? Jesus’s apostle Peter tells us how:
‘Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. 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. But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.’
(From Peter’s second epistle)
