As you read and meditate on this passage in 2nd Peter or 317 and 18 peter's warning you to guard against your attitudes and idolatries that would carry you away from the truth of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Remember as a believer you're empowered by God's spirit and completely sealed. Then you are a force to be reckoned with and if you have known and believed and received God's gift of salvation, you can stand in a full assurance today.

I challenge you today that if you have a sense of regret and that it is stolen your confidence in God eternal salvation? I challenge you lay aside your feelings before the Lord today and embrace your certainty that comes only from his truth.

Spend some time in scripture this week examining passages that describe the Holy Spirit. Is there one that speaks to your heart question?

Remember that God's word tells us to love one another bear our brother's burdens and confessors sins to the fellow believers in Christ.

Remember when you and I spend focused on hurried time with Jesus he will satisfy us as nothing else can do.

All you need to remember about the forgiveness of your sins is that our faith in Christ completed the work on the cross when he died for us and we can be assured that we have received and will continue to receive his divine mercy.

Remember no matter what else we need to increase in our willingness to forgive as we are familiar with the principle that Jesus gave us on the sermon on the mount where he said in Matthew 7:12, to treat others the same way that you want them to treat you are us for that matter.

Remember that when God parted you for your offenses he was transferring that freely to you through the son of his son Jesus Christ so that we could pass it on to others.

If you're a believer, you have everything you need for cultivating a heart that pursues the Lord.