Okay!

For in this way, entry into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will be richly supplied to you. - 2 Peter 1:11

When my brother and I were very little we went through a nightly routine with our mother before we went to sleep. It involved prayers and being tucked in, but then just as our mother left the room and turned off the light we would always say, "Leave your door open. Leave our door open, and leave 'em open. Okay?" We would then repeat it until we heard her positive reply, "Okay!", usually followed by, "Now, go to sleep!" As little boys, we needed the assurance that a clear path existed between our two rooms should we need our mom in the middle of a dark night.

Peter wrote to people who had experienced some truly dark "nights" and he did it to assure them that if they followed Christ, then the door to His Kingdom would never close. And for us, who now read his letter 2,000 years later, isn't it wonderful to know that the Savior has opened the door for an eternity with Him, and that this door will remain open until His return?

That, my friends, is okay!

It is near thirty years since He made it sure; and since that time, though there has fallen out much sin, yet I was never out of an assurance of mine interest, nor long out of sight of His presence. -Donald Cargill