God’s Power: We can fully trust in God’s protection because of His power. God is all-powerful and all-wise to create the heaven and the earth, the universe, human beings and all things in it (Jer 32:17; Rev 4:11); He is all-powerful to save sinners who repent and believe in Him (Rom 1:16; Heb 7:25); and He is all-powerful to keep His children, “who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time” (1 Peter 1:5). God’s children still encounter temptations, accidents, persecutions, dangers, etc., but God is able to keep their hearts in peace, to keep them from evil, and to keep them faithful to Him unto death. God “is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy” (Jude 1:24).
God’s Faithfulness: “Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations” (Deut 7:9). We can fully trust in God’s protection because of His faithfulness, “But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil” (2 Thess 3:3).
The Lord Jesus’ Prayer: We can stand firm not because we are more clever than others but because the Lord Jesus prays for us, “Holy Father, keep through thine own name those,… thou shouldest keep them from the evil” (John 17:11, 15), “Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them” (Heb 7:25). The Devil desired to sift Peter, but the Lord said, “But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not” (Luke 22:32). Knowing this, we shall be more humble and much more grateful to the Lord Jesus.
Have you been kept by the Lord’s power, faithfulness and prayer?
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