My Unusual Journal
My Unusual Journal 45 - Tuesday, November 01, 2011, 2:07 PM
What Is True Eternal Security?
“Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ…” (Php 1:6 KJV)
Note: Please stay with me on this. Don’t reject what I am saying if it seems to veer away from what you believe. Hear me out.
It is not possible for any outside force to condemn you to hell. "Greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world." (1 John 4.4) Believers have a lease that cannot be broken by any force of darkness. Even if he or she should do something that is contrary to the terms of the lease, they are not thrown immediately into the street, suddenly homeless and shelterless. They are warned by the Lessor of their violation and allowed to continue their residency under the original terms of the lease.
God is by no means seeking for a reason to evict us from our place in Christ. It is not consistent with sound logic that God, in the person of Jesus Christ, would suffer such pain and horror of soul for us and then quickly leave us to our sinful selves at every sinful crook of our finger. Remember this: none of us fully knows what Jesus experienced during His hour of Passion; we have not yet plumbed in our minds the extreme suffering He endured for us and we have not yet mentally grasped the unfathomable depths of God’s love for all mankind, saved and unsaved.
If we show Him at least a little LOVE (yes, it is relatively pitiful and weak) as He showed His love for us, if we refuse to buckle under the severest of tests and trials, if we continue to trust in God’s love and power, even when we have failed in this way or that so horribly – if we never give up on God or on our own selves trusting in God, He will never, never forsake us. All He asks of us is that we believe in Him despite the odds that are astronomically high against our doing so.
Forget your shortcomings and sins; deliberately ignore your own intrinsic worthlessness – trust and keep on trusting in the only Person who can never fail. That is all anyone of us can do. That, my friend, is true Eternal Security. True Eternal Security does not encourage you to sin; it is merely there to help you when and if you do sin. True Eternal Security does not falsely assure you that it is completely impossible for you to be lost; it simply says that God will do all He can short of compelling you to have faith in Him. If you persistently, consistently and obstinately refuse to be corrected, at long last God will have to let you go. But He is not considering that awful contingency now. God’s best efforts are now directed solely toward taking you to heaven. Work with Him.
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