How does a person make their "calling and election sure" (see 2 Pet 2:10, below)?

The verse you provided, means that God does elect. He has not given that information to us as to who is elect and who is not. We know who's who by their fruits, while God searches the heart. And the passage you provided exhorts the elect by showing what brings the Christian into fellowship with God. In other words, don't think you can ever, ever just give lip service to God while living the life of a heathen. If God has removed your heart of stone and given you a heart of flesh, here's how to use your heart of flesh.

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Peter wants to rouse the complacent believers who have listened to the false teachers and believe that because salvation is not based on good works they can live as they want. If you truly belong to the Lord, he says your hard work (diligence) will prove it. If your not working for God, maybe you don't belong to Him. If you are the Lord"s-- and your hard work backs up your claim-- you will never be led astray by false teaching or glamorous sin. Good works will not get you to heaven, but we will be judged on the works that we do here on earth. Salvation is through the shed blood of Jesus.

Impure seducers and their abandoned followers, give themselves up to their own fleshly minds. Refusing to bring every thought to the obedience of Christ, they act against God’s righteous precepts. They walk after the flesh, they go on in sinful courses, and increase to greater degrees of impurity and wickedness. They also despise those whom God has set in authority over them, and requires them to honour. Outward temporal good things are the wages sinners expect and promise themselves. And none have more cause to tremble, than those who are bold to gratify their sinful lusts, by presuming on the Divine grace and mercy. Many such there have been, and are, who speak lightly of the restraints of God’s law, and deem themselves freed from obligations to obey it. Let Christians stand at a distance from such.

Follow the teaching of that chapter and make you calling election sure by adding to your faith virtue, knowledge etc.... As you add those things you will be fruitful for God and never fail.

simple; become converted to the Latter Day Saints....it is your only surety......Peter was a catholic thing....however, Christ had removed his priesthood from the earth upon His death.....Christ's PrimitiveChurch....yes, HIS church......the keys to the priesthood were restored after a 14 year old child dropped to his knees in the woods here in America and asked God which Church he should join....and the reply from Jesus was "none of them; for they are not of me" .....Christ's church bears HIS NAME......that is where the term "calling" comes in.....only the Mormons follow such truth.....and as for the 'election'....no one holds a position as teacher, leader, or otherwise within the Latter Day Saints until it is brought before the congregation and by the raising of hands that person is conferred with that position....also Christs teaching......Gods truth.......amen....

I'm not an official Bible scholar, but I think it means this: our true identity is who we are in Christ, who God created us to really be, apart from this sin nature we're currently stuck with. When we get to heaven, that's going to fall off us and we will finally fully be the people God made us to be. That's our calling and election as I see it: to become more full of God's Spirit as we were originally intended to be.

We are partakers in the divine nature; God made us in His image. We are not God ourselves, of course, but as Christian believers He lives in us and through us. The closer we get to Him, the better positioned we are to receive His promises because we are more open and inviting to Him and His work in us and through us.

Sanctification is the process of growing into our true identity. We are called and elected to become more like Jesus. If we accept Jesus' free gift of life for our salvation and then turn away from Him in our daily lives, we will be sad on Judgment Day when we see all the good we could have done and been on this earth but failed to do so. However, salvation is not by our works, but by God's grace alone through Jesus' shed blood on the cross.

I think our joy at our entrance into Heaven will be greatly affected by how we treated people here on earth. I believe the treasures awaiting us are relationships, not things. After all, what has greater value?

As we let God sanctify us and become more like Him in our daily lives, we become better equipped to treat other people better. Love is what it's all about.

So how do you make your calling and election sure? I would say just keep listening to God, and keep saying Yes to Him, both in your heart and followed up by your actions. Let His Spirit increase in you.

He is like a drink that fills us with living light. We are not meant to be empty, trying to operate in our own strength. We are meant to be full of His glory in us, pouring out through us. We receive His love, and then give it out to others.

So drink deep day after day, and you will store up abundance and wealth for yourself in Heaven--the imperishable, brilliant kind that warms the heart with joyful peace.

We are blessed to be a blessing. We are loved to increase love. What better calling can there be? The more like Jesus we become, the more we will be able to love others.

Some are obedient to the point that they are assured salvation before they die (D&C, mormon.org.)