I know that all of us, from time to time, lose something of value, something of importance. Perhaps it’s some keys, or some money, or even directions on how to get somewhere. And many times it’s simply because we have “misplaced” the object of importance, and so we rejoice when we can find that certain object, which is usually “right where we left it”. Now, in the case of age, as our mind and body gets a lot older, we find ourselves in one room, remembering that we need to get something else out of another room, but as soon as we walk out of the first room, we immediately forget what we are looking for! Can I get an “Amen” here? What I usually do in such times is to return to my room of origin, and once there, gather my memory again of what I need to go after, and then I move to the other room to retrieve it. You “youngsters” will one day understand what I am talking about. What has been “lost”, has been “found”, and then, with effort, “saved”.
But I’m glad that my heavenly Father doesn’t lose or forget what has been placed in His hands for safekeeping. Take, for instance, our salvation. There are quite a many people who believe that once God has “found” you, though you are never lost, He knows where you are at all times, He can turn around and let you slip through His fingers or He forgets where He has “placed” you. I do not believe that way and I don’t think it is scriptural to believe that way either. Baptists have this doctrine of “once saved, always saved” that many other main-line denominations don’t believe is sound teaching, but I think it is. My thought here is not to argue and quarrel about “church doctrine”, but simply to present to you and to get you to think about what the Scripture says.
Now, the word of God is true. It cannot be otherwise. When Jesus was praying to His Father, God, about His disciples in John, the seventeenth chapter, He prayed unto God, “They (His disciples) are not of the world, as I am not of the world.” Then he said, “Sanctify them (that is, dedicate them) by truth, for Your word is truth.” If Jesus didn’t believe that the words of His Father weren’t true, he would not have prayed that way. And in Isaiah 55, God told Isaiah, “For as heaven is higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts. So My word that comes from My mouth will not return to Me empty, but it will accomplish what I please and will prosper in what I send it to do.” Folks, that is God simply saying, “My word is true!”
