“Who are protected by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.”
1 Peter 1:5, NASB
Certainty and confidence will never be permanent fixtures in our lives. Yes, I believe there are times of exceptional fortitude when everything just clicks, and we seem to be pretty victorious believers. But I assure you, this is only a temporary state. It isn’t the normal Christian life. And yet, right or wrong, we seem to strive to make this consistency our Christian life.
Gloomy thoughts may often prevail; our fears and doubts become complete seasons of time. There will be doubts and frustration. I start to lose my passion for Christ, it just trickles away. And since nature abhors a vacuum, other desires and interests move in. I slide into something quite compromised, and often what I previously might’ve condemned.
It is not so much your hold on Christ that saves you, rather it is His hold on you that is truly matters.
It is at these times we must absorb the truth. It is not your hold on Christ that saves you, rather it is His hold on you that is significant. It’s not how tight we hold on to our Father’s hand, but His grasp on yours. He has soaked up all our sin, and become guilty of it all. He has drawn it all away. He blots it all up with His white heart.
The mercy of God will insist on Him holding you close. Because of His profound love He seems to become overprotective of you. Anyone who touches you, touches “the apple of His eye.” Let none question, you are His own. The blood of Jesus covers all sin.
“I am graven on the palms of His hands. I am never out of His mind. All my knowledge of Him depends on His sustained initiative in knowing me. I know Him, because He first knew me, and continues to know me. He knows me as a friend, One who loves me; and there is no moment when His eye is off me, or His attention distracted for me, and no moment, therefore, when His care falters.”
J.I. Packer
Are you broken? Flawed, and stumbling? Do you think that you are a poor example of a believer? I tell you, His love is not contingent on your outward behavior. It is a Greek word, it is an “agape” love. Narrowly defined as a “unconditional love,” not related to what you deserve, earn, or warrant. It is a love given without an expectation of a corresponding love in return. This is love, and it travels with grace. And it will end with the same grace.
“The bridge of grace will bear your weight, brother. Thousands of big sinners have gone across that bridge, yea, tens of thousands have gone over it. Some have been the chief of sinners and some have come at the very last of their days but the arch has never yielded beneath their weight. I will go with them trusting to the same support. It will bear me over as it has for them.”
Charles Spurgeon
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Broken Believers 
Thank you for this.
I love that He is the One who holds me. When so many others have let go, He doesn’t. He is agape.
It’s not how tight we hold on to our Father’s hand, but His grasp on yours. He has soaked up all our sin, and become guilty of it all. He has drawn it all away. He blots it all up with His white heart.
Thank you.
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Really good to read this….
Timely for me. Thanks, Pastor.
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It is not your hold on Christ that saves you, rather it is His hold on you that is significant.
How true, brother!!! I feel like such a crummy Christian sometimes, but His grip does not yield. Thanks for reminding me of this.
Thinking of you, Bryan, & all of that snow you guys have. Someone said, during the first snowfall of my first year at ABI, that the love of God covers our sins just like the snow covers the ground. I remember rolling my eyes at the time & thinking how corny this was. Now it’s a precious memory that comes back whenever I think of Homer in winter!
Peace–
Ashley
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