Security of the Believer

We Christians are such losers sometimes...could Jesus take our salvation away as punishment?

Many a time in my youth I wondered if Jesus would simply get tired of us. After all, people can be pretty stupid a lot of the time. We endeavor to do right but we fail. We set lofty goals and get nowhere near attaining them. Why would Christ have any interest in us as we keep stumbling about? We Christians attempt to honor Him but we end up wanted to honor ourselves more. We lose control of so many of the ways to give Him glory, why wouldn't He just forget us and deny us Heaven? We're trying to do good, but doesn't His patience have a limit?

Then I look at His Word and I am comforted. Can we lose our salvation? I read the Word and see some powerful truths that tell me otherwise...

1. God does not let saints fall
Micah 7:8 - "when I fall I shall arise"
Psalm 37:24,25 - "Though he fall he shall not utterly be cast down...I have not seen the righteous forsaken..."

2. This is the Lord's doing, and it is not in our power to "undo" it.
Psalm 37:37,40 - "But salvation of the righteous is of the Lord..."
2 Tim. 1:12 "He is able to keep that which I've committed unto Him against that day."
Jude 24 - "...now unto Him who is able to keep you from falling..."
1 Peter 1:5 - "who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time."

3. God knows the believer.
John 10:14 - God tells us He knows His child.
Compare that with the lost He speaks to in Matthew 7:23. "...I never knew you..."

4. The believer is in Jesus' hand.
John 10:28 - "...neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand."

5. The believer will not come into condemnation.
John 5:24 - "He that...believeth on Him that sent me hath everlasting life and shall not come into condemnation..."

Thank you, Jesus, for making a Way. Thank you for keeping us going on that Way.