The Lord is awe-inspiring, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him in 1 John 2:24-25,
“See that what you have heard from the beginning remains in you. If it does, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father. And this is what he promised us—even eternal life.”
As John talks of these false teachers, these “antichrists” who had wandered from the truth into heresy, left the fellowship of believers and attempted to take others with them - believers, by leading them astray he points to the tenacity of the faith of true believers. True believers remain in the truth. Their remaining reveals they are true believers. True believers do not wander from the truth. As John points out in verse 19, “They [false teachers] went out from us, but they did not really belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us; but their going showed that none of them belonged to us.”
The writer of Hebrews says the same thing, “We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly till the end the confidence we had at first.” Hebrews 3:14. The persistence of our faith demonstrates the reality of our salvation, of our relationship with the Son and with the Father. If we truly embrace Jesus Christ in faith we will never fall away from this faith. As Paul puts it in 2 Corinthians 1:21-22, “Now it is God who makes both us and you stand firm in Christ. He anointed us, set his seal of ownership on us, and put his Spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.”
It is this last piece of what Paul has to say in 2 Corinthians 1:22 that captures my heart this morning. Our salvation is guaranteed! As John says in our passage this morning, “this is what he promised us-even eternal life.” What God has promised will be fulfilled. After all, this guarantee rests on God’s faithfulness itself as we read in 1 Corinthians 1:8-9, “He will keep you strong to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. God, who has called you into fellowship with his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, is faithful.”
I think this is wonderful! How about you?
Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share your theme of worship with us from your Bible reading today. We’d love to hear from you!
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