Date: December 22, 2010 8:50 PM
Topic: +DEV+ Hanging on for Dear Life
Hanging on for Dear Life
"To him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy - be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ..." (Jude 24-25).
Scripture Focus: Jude 17-25
Recently I noticed these words on the cover of a magazine: "Hanging on for Dear Life." I thought of Jude's warning against evil (vs. 18-19) and then of Jude's antidote for persevering in such evil times (vs. 20-22). Jesus' prayer in John 17 is "not that you [the Father] take them out of the world, but that you protect them from the evil one." We are to be in the world - living in it, enjoying it, caring for it, redeeming it for His glory - but not of the world.
Perhaps one of the best resolutions this year is, indeed, to "hang on for dear life" to Him who keeps us from falling or losing sight of God's purpose for us. Imagine Jesus presenting you "without fault and with great joy" when your final days are done. Even with all my finest motivations and sometimes-successes in my resolutions, I will fall short. So will you. But clinging to Jesus Christ alone, you and I are forgiven and spotless. No glory for keeping our resolutions will come our way; but all glory and majesty go to the only God our Savior!
Insight: Hang on for dear life, because your Savior gave His dear life to hang on to you!
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