Calling and Election Sure

O soul, there is a coming Judgment Day—
Consider carefully these truths therein;
Make sure your calling and be true alway!

Continue in these qualities—don't stray!
Work hard at them and give not way to sin—
Consider Jesus: let us run to win!
O soul, there is a coming Judgment Day.

Have you no fruit?  Your life reduced to gray?
Grab hold the Spirit's qualities to win,
Possessed increasingly will keep from sin,
Press into God, each day with prayer begin—
Make sure your calling and be true alway!

Your life then lived, these qualities display
The truth regeneration then is in
Your heart and not a mask like phony skin.
The Spirit seals His ownership within;
Secure in Christ—make sure He is your kin.
O soul, there is a coming Judgment Day!

Remember this though still within the fray,
That Christ redeemed and purchased you from sin;
You have no need to walk like that again.
Then on that Day His vict'ry you will win
An entrance into Paradise with Him
Abundantly He'll give forever then!
Make sure your calling and be true alway!

So fight the fight and do what's right,
Take up His cause and sin destroy;
Soon Day will blaze and burst with praise,
So purely live down here with joy!

- D. Benning

Based on the Sunday am service, 24-Jun-2018, by Pastor on 2 Pet. 1:8 - 11.