50 Days of Wisdom
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Wisdom is a skill in living that begins with fearing God, then progresses to guarding your mind, choosing your companions, controlling your body, monitoring your words, pursuing your work, managing your money, and loving your neighbor. Very simple. But that’s it. And when you’ve done that, you’ve learned wisdom. It’s vital to be taught wisdom. For example, as a father, if I fail to teach my son to fear God, the devil will teach him to hate God. If I fail to teach my son to guard his mind, the devil will teach him to have an open mind. If I fail to teach my son to obey his parents, the devil will teach him to rebel and break his parents’ hearts. If I fail to teach my son to select his companions carefully, the devil will choose them for him. If I fail to teach my son to control his body, the devil will gladly teach him to give it completely over to his lusts. If I fail to teach my children to enjoy speech that is honorable to God, the devil will fill their mouths with filth. If I fail to teach my children to pursue their work, the devil will make them lazy. If I fail to teach them to manage their money, the devil will teach them to waste it on riotous living. If I fail to teach them to love their neighbor, the devil will gladly teach them to love only themselves.
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Make Your Election Sure
What does it mean to be a fruitless Christian? It means to be useless, unproductive, indolent, inoperative, or inactive. The Bible uses this very word to describe unbelievers regarding their barrenness and their lack of fruitfulness. The New Testament also uses this term for both believers and unbelievers multiple times. Consequently, it is possible that you can be saved and yet are indistinguishable from an unbeliever. The point is, without adding virtues such as knowledge, self-control, patience, godliness, brotherly kindness, and love to your saving faith, you will become indistinguishable from unbelievers. You will be unfruitful and appear just like unbelievers—unproductive, inoperative, and useless. As a result, you’ll have no sense of assurance that you are saved because you won’t be able to distinguish yourself as a believer either. Look at 2 Peter 1:9. “But he that lacketh these things is”—what?—“blind.” That means if you lack these things, you are blind, and you cannot see very far. You’re nearsighted. All you can see is what's right in front of you. In other words, you’ve lost your ability to see into the distance. You’ve lost your eternal vision. You’ve lost your eternal perspective. You no longer see eternity. All you see is what is immediately in front of you. Spiritual myopia focuses on the earth, focusing on passing things. And the reason you have that problem is your eye is focused on here, and by the time it gets out there, it’s so far away you can’t focus. Therefore, from a spiritual perspective, if you are unable to perceive these virtues in your life, your eternal perspective has been lost and your sense of eternity is gone. If your life lacks fruitfulness, you lose the ability to see the eternal perspective, trapping you in this immediate environment. And you will, it says in verse 9, have forgotten that you were purged from your old sins. You will have forgotten that you were cleansed in the past from your sins. Literally, you will have forgotten that you’re saved. So assurance is directly tied to producing in your life an increasing measure of these spiritual graces by the Spirit of God. And by the way, this blindness that is true of us is the same term in 2 Corinthians 4, where it says the god of this world, Satan, has blinded the minds of them that believe not. So you become just as blind as an unbeliever, and, again, you can no more identify your own salvation than an unbeliever could. What Peter is saying is that if you add these virtues to your life, you will make your calling and election sure. And then you will have assurance of your salvation, because your assurance is directly related to your behavior. Repent and believe! GTY.org (DOC-13) - The Doctrine of Salvation: Assurance – DOC-13
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November 26, 2025
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