Your salvation is secure.

Romans 11:29 for the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. Today’s verse encourages us that once God bestows His gifts upon His children He will not take them back. What gifts did Paul have in mind? If we think back through his letter, there are many. He has mentioned the gifts of righteousness in justification, the grace in which we stand, faith through hearing, and the Holy Spirit who pours out God’s love in our hearts, sanctifies us, intercedes for us, and gives us life in our mortal bodies. This verse also assures us that our salvation cannot be lost or taken away any more than we can be separated from the love of God in Christ. These gifts constitute the calling of God that flows out of the eternal fountain of God’s election, foreknowledge, and predestination that we be conformed to the image of His Son so He might be the firstborn among many brethren. God isn’t going to recall His gifts and calling because there’s nothing wrong with them. When something is recalled, it is recalled because it is broken or fails to work as it was designed. God’s salvation of the people whom He foreknew in Christ isn’t broken nor has it or will it fail. That was Paul’s point regarding God’s promise to Abraham who believed God’s gifts and calling. Romans 4:17 “(as it is written, ‘A FATHER OF MANY NATIONS HAVE I MADE YOU”) in the presence of Him whom he believed, even God, who gives life to the dead and calls into being that which does not exist.’” If someone could lose their salvation, then it would mean God’s gifts and calling are not irrevocable. We certainly are broken, but God’s gifts and calling to the broken are not, and our salvation does not depend upon anything in us. All who are given the gift of righteousness through faith and are called by the Holy Spirit from life to death continue in faith and love to the very end of their lives due to this great truth revealed in Rom. 11:29. What motivates us to continue in faith and love isn’t the fear of losing our salvation, but the grace of God and the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit. Our calling is to live to love with Jesus to the very end. He will never revoke that call because we cannot be separated from His love. So let us rejoice in our assurance in Christ today and bow in humility and awe at God’s faithfulness to us in Christ. Acknowledgment: Music from “Carried by the Father” by Eric Terlizzi. www.ericterlizzi.com