2 Peter 1:10 - "Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to confirm your calling and election, for if you practice these qualities you will never fall."

You shall never fall. The devil's out there 24 hours a day devising ways to make us fall. Jesus is on the throne 24 hours a day giving us power to resist him, and we need to be exercising our faith all the time. If you're going to stand in the days ahead, you're going to need a lot more than Sunday school Laodicean faith. You're going to need some full-grown, mountain-moving faith, and there's only one way to get that: By giving yourself to the Word daily more diligently than you ever have before.

Give diligence to prove that you really are among those God has called and chosen to bring forth the Great Commission and no matter how slippery the situation gets, you won't have to fall!

Hebrews 5:14, 6:1 - "But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil. Therefore let us move beyond the elementary teachings about Christ and be taken forward to maturity."

In the letter to the Hebrews, the recipients had long been Christians, who by then ought to have been teaching others. Instead they were still like infants needing to be fed milk (Hebrews 5:12-14). They were to go on to maturity, to the status of spiritual adults, and to more profound truths concerning our right standing with God and the authority and Christ identity given to the believer as a result of Christ's finished work.

Yield yourself fully to Christ and find in Him the ascended life in Jesus that will free you from the self life that you must abandon to be a follower of Jesus. Then you will grow in grace and learn to mentor other baby Christians into becoming spiritually mature in advancing the Kingdom.

ALBERT FINCH MINISTRY