LOOKING UNTO JESUS!
"We
are saved by hope."
-ROMANS
8:24 [KJV]
What
is the meaning of being saved by hope? It does not mean saved
actually, but instrumentally; not saved as regards our eternal
security, but as regards our experience of salvation. By hope we are
instrumentally saved from despair, saved from turning our backs upon
Christ and the gospel, saved from looking to any other Saviour, or
any other salvation; and especially saved from making this world and
this life our happiness and home, as "waiting patiently for what
we see not," even "the redemption of our body."
Now
it is by hope that we hang upon and cleave to the Lord Jesus, and
thus by this grace we abide in Him. It is therefore spoken of as an
"anchor of the soul both sure and steadfast, and which entereth
into that which is within the veil." What holds the ship firm in
the storm, and prevents it falling upon the rocks? The anchor. The
ship abides firm as long as the anchor holds. So by hope the soul
abides in Christ. He is within the veil; we are without, and, it may
be, tossed up and down on a sea of doubt and fear, distress and
anxiety, and yet there is a bond of union between him and us firmer
than the Atlantic Cable.
-Gospel
report by preacher J.C. Philpot (1802-1869 A.D.)
May
17th, EARS FROM HARVESTED SHEAVES
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