Instinctive and determined desire to make their calling and election sure

Bruce R. McConkie:

“Among those who have received the gospel, and who are seeking diligently to live its laws and gain eternal life, there is an instinctive and determined desire to make their calling and election sure.” To “seek the divine presence” and “in fact be like Him who is the great Prototype of all saved Beings . . . is the end objective, the chief goal of all the faithful, and there is nothing greater in all eternity. It is little wonder then that the Prophet Joseph Smith, particularly during the latter and crowning years of his mortal ministry, repeatedly exhorted the saints to press forward with that steadfastness in Christ which would enable them to make their calling and election sure.”