Examining our election

Two days in a row, now, I’ve heard on the radio references to the biblical exhortation to “make your calling and election sure.” Today, Alastair Begg tied this with the admonition Christ gives in the Sermon on the Mount to enter through the “narrow gate” and how making your calling and election sure is a process of making sure you have entered through the narrow gate. All this brought to mind the analogy of a road-trip. Just as a driver utilizes a road map or atlas, checking for signs, towns and intersections for reference, in order to make sure they are on the right path to reach their desired destination; so the Christian utilizes the Bible, checking their lives against the clear definitions and pictures of what a true Christian lives like, to make sure they truly have been converted and are on the path to that Celestial City they long to reach.