How to be Eternally Secure: Knowing & Having God’s Love Yourself.

How can a christian have eternal security?  Eternal security involves two basic things.  The first involves knowing the promises and love of God.  God’s will is that all men know the truth and come to be saved.  He is patient with all.  He does not want any to perish, but everyone to change and love like Him.  God has demonstrated his own love to us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.  He would rather die than not see you in Heaven.  If God did this while all of us were still His enemies, how much more would He accept us if you are prepared to make your peace with him?  So great is His unfailing love.  If the Lord delights in your intentions, He will make your steps firm.  Though you stumble, you will not fall because the Lord will uphold you with his hand.  The Christian’s security can rest in the promise of God and not their own performance.  If you stumble, you get back up and continue toward Christ.  To those who love Him and intend to persevere, God sets an open door of Salvation that no one can shut.  If you love God and want to be saved, God will ensure that you make it.  God works out everything for His own ends.  All who call on the name of the Lord will be saved.  No one can be snatched out of his hand.  Knowing God’s perfect love can cast out all fear.   He who fears has not been made perfect in love.

The second basic element needed for eternal security involves possessing the Love of God yourself.  God may open a door of salvation to you that no one can shut, but you still have to walk thru that door.  God may work out all the circumstances that you may seek him and perhaps find him, but that is where Predestination ends.  God will not make you a robot; He will not make the choice for you.   God’s will is that all men be saved, but not everyone will.  Satan may want all men to fall, but not everyone will.  The Devil made me do it argument will not absolve you of your moral responsibility- your choice.  Man’s will can be influenced but never controlled.  For a loving God has granted man the gift of free will.  The same light that softens some, hardens others.  If you hear his voice, do not harden your heart.   The potter shapes best what He can with the clay He is working with.  He makes the best out of what your free-will allows.  Personal beliefs may set the course of your life, but beliefs in themselves do not have to be set in stone.  The Parable of the sower teaches men that you have to have a soft, deep, and undistracted heart to be transformed and bear fruit.  If you Love God and others, you have fulfilled the Law.  If you love him, you will obey his command.  The problem only arises when your heart is not in it.  Put your heart into knowing God’s love, learn his ways, and make them your own and you will have nothing to worry about regarding salvation.