The Gate is Open

"Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence, and in your moral excellence...knowledge. and in your knowledge...self-control, and in your self-control....perseverance, and in your perseverance....godliness, and in your godliness...brotherly kindness, and in your brotherly kindness, love.
For if ALL these qualities are yours AND are INCREASING, they render neither useless nor unfruitful in TRUE knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
For he who LACKS these qualities is blind or short-sighted, having FORGOTTEN his purification from his former sins.

THEREFORE, brethren, be all the more diligent to make certain about His CALLING and CHOOSING you; for as long as you practice these things you WILL NEVER STUMBLE;
for in this way the ENTRANCE into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will be ABUNDANTLY SUPPLIED to you."
-2 Peter 1:5-11

 I pretty much fell in love with this passage tonight.  After, some study based on the narrow gate and wide gate.....life and destruction....false prophets and real....I began to find myself in a place where I was even questioning where I fit into these contrasts.  But after falling deeply into this passage......I rested.....knowing THE GATE IS OPEN. It is not a WIDE or BROAD gate. But it is OPEN.  To those who have rested upon the rock of who Christ is and are pursuing faith, moral excellence, knowledge, self-control, perseverance, godliness, brotherly kindness and love.....it is OPEN.

Knowing that the initial pursuit is only the beginning.... that the ABUNDANCE comes as those things increase and surface and other things decrease and fade ....His promise is trustworthy.  Practice these THINGS and you will never STUMBLE.....I can walk today knowing that one day I will walk right through the ENTRANCE as if I had walked through that narrow, open gate..... many times before.....