Is Your Ticket Valid?

Devotional Reading:
2 Peter 1:11
For in this way there will be richly provided for you an entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
2 Peter 1:3-10 (in Context)

Devotional Question:
Which Way? Please! What can I do to gain entrance into the kingdom?

Devotional Reading:
John 3:4-7
Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’

Devotional Question:

This sounds impossible! Does Jesus make it sound like there is anything you can do on your own to make yourself right with God?

Did You Know?

Jesus tells us exactly how we are to be made right with God. Religions try to fabricate what "we" must do be made in right standing with God. Jesus Christ shows us that God himself alone is able to re-instate a relationship between Creator and created. God's provision is our only valid hope. It is a fatal idea to think we can add even one little thing to justify entrance or presence into His kingdom. In fact, imagine a conversation with Adam or Eve - or - consider the plight of the very first animal (first death ever) that ever had to die sacrificially to provide them a suitable covering for their shame.

The human strivings detailed in 2 Peter 1:5-7 attest to confirmation and assurance (for us) - not admittance. Admittance is by God's grace through faith (Ephesians 2:8). Assurance is for when we "little faith-er's" forget what we hope for because we demand and expect to see. But here is a promise that rings true and should always give us hope:

2 Timothy 2:13

if we are faithless, he remains faithful— for he cannot deny himself.

Is your ticket valid? Validate don't fabricate.