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Follower of Jesus Christ, have you ever feared that you might "lose" your "abiding" in Christ? Abiding is the essence of you having made your home in Him, by His doing, by His will and power. You DO abide because the Lord, Who is the Vine, united you to Himself. He was the One Who made you one with Himself. Nothing in all creation can separate you from the Love of God in Christ Jesus. Your abiding in Christ is not a matter of your striving or achieving, but simply believing Him. That is the essence of His rest. It is not a question of how you feel, but what He has done and continues to do in you. Truth is, Jesus is Life within you. He is your Life, Eternal Life being lived out in you by the Holy Spirit. 

Romans 8:35-39  "Can anything ever separate us from Christ’s love? Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threatened with death? (As the Scriptures say, “For your sake we are killed every day; we are being slaughtered like sheep.”) No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us. And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord."

2 Peter 1:3-9 "By His divine power, God has given us everything we need for living a godly life. We have received all of this by coming to know Him, the one who called us to Himself by means of His marvelous glory and excellence. And because of His glory and excellence, He has given us great and precious promises. These are the promises that enable you to share His divine nature and escape the world’s corruption caused by human desires. In view of all this, make every effort to respond to God’s promises. Supplement your faith with a generous provision of moral excellence, and moral excellence with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with patient endurance, and patient endurance with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love for everyone. The more you grow like this, the more productive and useful you will be in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But those who fail to develop in this way are shortsighted or blind, forgetting that they have been cleansed from their old sins."

Since salvation is “of the Lord”, He is the One enabling you to cooperate with Him and to have those character traits increase and grow in you. He will never leave or forsake you even when chaos runs amok around you. You are secure because He makes you secure.  Any “thoughts” that hit you like flaming arrows to try and have you reference your security on how you feel are thoughts that did not originate with you. They are thoughts trying to cast aspersions on God. In Jesus’ Name, reject them. Let the Holy Spirit have them to dispose of them. As a “branch”, the Life in you IS the Life of the Vine. That is why the fruit born in you in the fruit of the Spirit. Fear not!


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