At this point, many catholics and Mormons cite the Pauline passage where Paul tells his audience to 'work out your own salvation in fear and trembling.' To apply this passage as a contradiction to many other passages where Paul rsts upon the Promise of as something God will do as His Grace toward the believer, the faither, well, that is typical of works based religions. Sorry. But perhaps you have different passages in mind that tell you it is up to you tomake sure God's Promise is kept?
But perhaps you have different passages in mind that tell you it is up to you to make sure God’s Promise is kept?
Without going to different passages, I can summarize what I believe as follows:
God knows who are the sheep and who are the goats even before we are born; He will give His promise to the sheep and keep it; He will not give His Promise to the goats.