Yeah. Not.

"God isn't into take backs."

GOD IS NOT FICKLE. You’re in one day and out the next. Salvation is not iffy, a slippery slope you’d better measure each step. When you ask Christ to live in your heart (spirit man), the Word says you are made new. Brand new. So to say you are saved then not saved implies God’s in, then God’s out. And all that new is dead again.

“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” (2 Corinthians 5:17)

Yeah. Not.

This is common church theology, and I get it. We are supposed to walk uprightly. In holiness. But really, on our own, we are not capable. We can only act right because of God in us. Because He is our strength and wisdom. And forgiveness.

Forgiveness is the point of salvation, and God isn’t into take backs. That’s human behavior. “Well, I forgave you yesterday, but since I’m mad today …” Or, “Since you didn’t do the right thing like I asked …”

That’s not God at all. His love has no shoreline. It’s infinite. It’s almost desperate. He isn’t going to turn loose of anyone if He “can avoid it,” to use a particular expression. Jesus went through an awful lot of awfulness for us to think He’d back out. What’s happened to SO LOVE then?

The Truth is God is not fickle. He isn’t picky. He loves you for you. He loves your neighbor for himself. He loves me just as I am. I don’t have to worry about my salvation one bit. Nor messing up too much for forgiveness. Nor falling away from God. It takes everything to be Judas, and Jesus pleaded for him. He didn’t even want to condemn Judas. The Scripture had to be fulfilled, we read in Jesus’ own words (John 17:12). Judas is forever on Jesus’ heart. He loves him.

And He loved you so much before you were born that He paved the way to heaven with pure gold. Once you find it, it’s forever. Everlasting. Eternal. Impossible to lose. God who made you new will keep you walking on it, His mercy as wide and high, as infinite as the stars, which have never stopped expanding since He put them into place.

“He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep.” (John 21:17)


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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
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