It was late in the evening, I was 16 years old, and I declared to my sister that I no longer believed in God. I was an atheist for an entire day. I’ve always struggled with unbelief; I’m not a natural believer. I’ve never found faith to be easy. Belief in the unseen, hope in a life to come, submitting my will to a higher power; all these are hard for me.
Even though my faith has been at times weak and fragile, it has never broken completely. There have been times when I wanted to leave the faith; when I have wanted to run away from the Lord. Perhaps you have been there as well - in the dark valley of doubt. Perhaps you have felt you that you cannot carry on in the faith.
Our meditation today comes from the unquivering lips of the Eternal God of the universe, Jesus Christ. In a statement pregnant with hope and shining like a beacon in the night, Jesus declares: “I shall lose none!” (John 6:39). This is the reason, dear Christian, that your faith has not been swallowed-up by doubt. This is the reason that all your heartaches have not lead to final despair. Jesus will not lose you; He will not let any of His own be lost eternally. Feeble though your faith may be, Jesus has shed his precious blood for you, and not a sing drop was spilled in vain. If the power to save is in His blood, the power to keep you saved is found in that same atoning death. If you are in Christ, the success of your faith rests not first upon your own ability to keep it, but in the strength of Christ’s promise that He shall keep it.
Father, nothing in my hands I bring, not even my own faith, simply to the cross I cling. I am more than comforted that all you have given your Son, my Savior, will be no means ever be lost eternally, but you shall raise me up on the last day.
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