The Tight-Rope Dancer

“They weaken Christiajt comfort who 77iake believers walk with Christ like daiicers up07i a rope, eve7’y 77i077ie7it 17i fear of breaki7tg their 7iecks” Those who deny the doctrine of the final perseverance of the saints deserve this censure. We cannot tell whence these brethren derive their comfort. Our notion of trusting Christ includes in it a reliance upon him for the present and the future as well as for the sins of the past. It is to us the glory of the gospel that it gives us now, at this very moment, a present and everlasting salvation. Once grasped in the hand of Jesus, what can pluck us thence or cause us to perish? Tight-rope dancing suits not our poor head, we prefer to be “safe in the arms of Jesus.”

My soul, let others say what they will, do thou accept thy Lord’s word for it, and believe that he will keep the feet of his saints. A temporary, questionable salvation may suffice those who know not thy Lord; but as for thee, do thou abide by his eternal, unchangeable love, and fear no final fall.