You are Secure!

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"Father, into Your hands I commend My spirit" (Lk 23:46)


The sayings of Jesus on the Cross were not yet over when He uttered the victorious words, "It is finished." The only begotten Son of God left His home in glory and came into this world to offer His own precious life as a ransom for man's salvation. After fulfilling the perfect will of His Father, remembering Psalm 31:5, Jesus commended His spirit into the hands of His Heavenly Father. No one was able to take the life of Jesus. It was His own freewill offering.

We don't need to fear about tomorrow because Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever. He is the one who was, who is and who is to come. He is the "A" and the "Z."

Jesus said, "I give My sheep eternal life and they shall never perish. Neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand. My Father who has given them to Me is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father's hand" (Jn 10:28,29). In the hands of Jesus! And in the hands of the Father! Absolute safety!

So Paul declared with perfect confidence, "I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that He is able to keep what I have committed to Him until that Day" (2 Tim 1:12). God has not chosen us to leave or lose us in the middle. "Whether we are high above the sky or in the deepest ocean, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus" (Rom 8:39).

God is able to keep us from stumbling, and present us faultless before the presence of His glory (Jude 24).

There arises a question: Once saved, always safe? Can a person lose his salvation? The Bible scholars are divided on this issue. On one side we have the Calvinists and on the other the Armenians. The first group emphasises what God does, and the second what man should do. Bring both together and you get the balanced Biblical truth. God is able and willing to keep. The devil cannot snatch me from God. But I must be willing to hold on to His hand. Without me God will not; without God I cannot!

Safe am I, safe am I in the hollow of His hand;
Sheltered o'er, sheltered o'er with His love for ever more.
No ill can harm me, no fear alarm me,
For He keeps both day and night,Safe am I, safe am I in the hollow of His hand!

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