2 Peter 1: 3, 4 “According to His Divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him. Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the Divine Nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. and beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; and to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; and to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:”
IF you do these things, you shall never fail or fall. A very powerful and pointed promise from the Father. A “promise” is an assurance on the part of another of some good for which we are dependent on him. It implies that the thing is in His power; that he may bestow it or not, as He pleases; that we cannot infer from any process of reasoning that it is his purpose to bestow it on us; that it is a favor which we can obtain only from him, and not by any independent effort of our own!
Diligence is careful and industrious. All the effects of the gospel on the human heart are, in the Scriptures, traced to the power of God. There are no moral means which have ever been used that have such power as the gospel; none through which God has done so much in changing the character and affecting the destiny of man. The promises here referred to are those which pertain to salvation.
It’s time to be humble before and God who is able to set you high to shine His Light brighter through the mire of our mortal clay. Matthew 11:28-30 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”