To him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy—to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen.

Jude 24, 25

Having exposed (rather harshly at times) the attraction of a heresy that leads away from walking daily and humbly with Jesus Christ, Jude now shifts gears and eagerly writes words of healing and joy that is our text for the day.

Jude commends us, his readers, or gives us, so to speak, to the keeper of our souls, Jesus Christ.  After all, we are His!  We gave ourselves to Him. Why should we even think of taking back our lives, to return to our former days?  We are safe in Jesus.  He is able to keep us from stumbling on the way if we walk humbly at his side.

The reward?  We do not come to Jesus for a reward, but for salvation.  But, as we find ourselves in Jesus Christ we begin to realize how very blessed we are, receiving gifts that we do not, in any way, deserve.  An example, we live without fault as we walk with our blessed Jesus Christ who cleanses and keeps us hour by hour. Not only does Jesus present us before God as faultless, but absolutely full of joy, not in our accomplishments but in the grace of our Lord Jesus.   That is the stance we assume now and forever.

Whose hands are we in?  God’s, of course. He is our Savior and Lord. We experience his glory, his majesty, his power and authority.  That is quite a list!  It is all in Jesus.  It is ours as we walk with him.

How certain are we?  Jude helps us to realize that we are the Lord’s now, that we were his before time began and we will be his forevermore.  Can we possibly take that in?  Why would anyone deliberately walk away from that wonderful salvation?  Unfortunately, some of Jude’s readers did.  Hopefully many repented and resumed their daily walk with Jesus.

May I and you, dear reader, continue to walk simply with Jesus Christ, never, ever leaving him for another alternative.  As Jude testifies, we are in the only God.  There is no other. Let us remain in him, rooted and grounded and growing in Him, now and forever.  Amen.