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master of the wilderness listening. It was comforting to know that he was watching over us so closely. He motioned for me to continue:
“You are all here because you were called. You were known before the world began. You have been given the opportunity to run the race for the highest prize there has ever been or ever will be. This is the path to the high calling of God that the apostles wrote about. Just by beginning, you have already joined the greatest souls to ever walk the earth. It took great faith to begin, and it will take greater faith every day to continue. It was not intended to be easy, but to be the foundry of the great ones who will reign with Christ in His kingdom.”
“What about those still on the ship?” a young girl asked. “My parents are on the ship. Won’t they rule with Christ also?”
“If anyone calls on the name of the Lord they will be saved, they have eternal life and a glorious eternity before them,” I responded. “But this path is for those who would run the race that the Apostle Paul spoke of near the end of his life. He spoke of a better resurrection that he did not feel he had yet attained to, but that he was pressing on toward the mark of the high calling. He was not speaking there of salvation or eternal life. These he had the day he trusted the Savior for his salvation. There is a high calling that not many see and not many pursue. This is the path to ‘ the high calling of God in Christ Jesus .’”
“I thought we were all going to be the same in heaven,” another chimed in.
“Where did you get that from?” I asked.
“I’m not sure. I think I heard it, but I may have just assumed it. I’ve never before heard what you’re talking about. Are you sure this is in the Scriptures?” she continued.
“Yes, this is in the Scriptures, and you are right to question this. There is much in Scripture about the high calling, and those will be illuminated and fortified in you on this journey. You need to see the high calling to walk this path, just as the Savior endured the cross for the glory that was set before Him. If He needed to see the reward how much more do we need to see it to endure the life of the cross that we have been called to?
“It is right to have this discussion here,” I continued. “All of His created beings have been created for a specific purpose and place in His creation. He has given an opportunity for some from fallen mankind to become His very own family, sons and daughters of the King of kings, and to take on His divine nature. All of creation marvels at this ‘new creation’ that is being raised up from fallen mankind. As they witness the resolve, the sacrifice, and the character of those who walk this path and endure against such opposition and hardship all for the sake of their King, even the angels acknowledge that these are worthy to be their judges.”
“But if it is all by grace, then how is it that people have different rewards, or positions, in heaven?” The young girl blurted out, obviously agitated.
“That is a good question,” I tried to encourage her. “It is true that all that we are and all that we become is by the grace of God. It is by the grace of God that you were called and that you heard the call. We are also told to ‘ make our calling and election sure. ’ This is why the Holy Spirit is called ‘the Helper,’ not ‘the Doer.’ We have a part to do also. We must accept His grace and then walk in it. ‘ Many are called, but few are chosen ,’ or few respond to the call to make their calling and election sure.
“There is a mentality that has crept into much of the world that we are all the same, and all deserve the same, regardless of effort or accomplishments. That is not a biblical concept. In fact, it is contrary to justice, one of the two foundations of the throne of God which is the kingdom of God. The promises given to the churches in Revelation were to the ‘overcomers’ in those churches. Something other was