Jesus is pleased to call you into His own kingdom and glory and has given you His Spirit to walk worthy of this calling.

“do not cease to pray [proseuchomai] for you…that you may walk worthy [axios] of the Lord, fully pleasing [areskeia] Him” (Col 1:9,10)

“I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy [axios] of the calling with which you were called” (Eph 4:1)

“that you would walk worthy [axios] of God who calls you into His own kingdom and glory.” (1Thes 2:12)

“to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted [charitoo] in the Beloved.” (Eph 1:6)

“for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure [eudokia].” (Phil 2:13)

“having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure [eudokia] of His will” (Eph 1:5)

“having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure [eudokia] which He purposed in Himself” (Eph 1:9)

“Therefore we also pray always for you that our God would count you worthy [axioo] of this calling, and fulfill all the good pleasure [eudokia]  of His goodness and the work of faith with power” (2Thes 1:11)

“Only let your conduct be worthy [axios] of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel” (Phil 1:27)

“But as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, even so we speak, not as pleasing [aresko] men, but God who tests our hearts.” (1Thes 2:4)

“Finally then, brethren, we urge and exhort in the Lord Jesus that you should abound more and more, just as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please [aresko] God” (1Thes 4:1)

“So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God.” (Rom 8:8)

“Let each of us please [aresko] his neighbor for his good, leading to edification.” (Rom 15:2)

Reading: Ezek 30-32; Col 1