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“Salvation comes from the Lord.”  (Jonah 2:9 NIV)

A lot of believers lack confidence in what the Lord Jesus Christ is doing in their lives, “If my salvation boils down to my decision to follow Jesus, how do I know that I can keep it up?  The best I could do is to say ‘I’ll give it my best shot, and I hope I make it.’”  Thank God the Bible doesn’t say, “Salvation comes from me.”

Salvation comes from the Lord!  If God is saving me, I can have confidence in his ability to keep me.  Augustus Toplady wrote this hymn in the 1700s, but it is still very relevant to us today:

The work which His goodness began,

The arm of His strength will complete;

His promise is ‘Yes’ and ‘Amen’

And never was forfeited yet.

 

Things future, nor things that are now,

Nor all things below or above,

Can make Him His purpose forgo,

Or sever my soul from His love.

 

My name from the palms of His hands

Eternity will not erase;

Impressed on His heart it remains

In marks of indelible grace.

 

Yes, I to the end shall endure

As sure as the earnest is given;

More happy, but not more secure,

the glorified spirits in heaven.

When you grasp more clearly that salvation comes from the Lord, then your confidence in the Lord, who died to save you and lives to keep you, will soar.  And so will your assurance that he will never let you go.

Do you struggle with confidence in what the Lord is doing in your life?