IN HIS GRIP

IN HIS GRIP

Bible: Romans 8:31-39

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I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me

(PHILIPPIANS 3:12).

I went climbing at my local gym for the first time a few days ago. The instructor climbed up the wall with me, talking me through it and showing me where to put my feet as I pushed myself higher. When I started wobbling, I grabbed for his hand. As I held on to him, I felt a lot safer. But it wasn’t really my grip on him that kept me from slipping, but his grip on me. Something similar is true in our Christian lives: it’s not the tightness of our grip on God that keeps us safe, but the power of Jesus’ hold on us. So Paul tells us, “Christ Jesus took hold of me” (PHILIPPIANS 3:12). Or more exactly, “Jesus has a grip on me!” No one can take us out of His hands—not the devil, not even ourselves. Once we’re in His hands, He will not let go. We have this promise: “I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand”
(JOHN 10:28-29). With Jesus firmly holding us, we couldn’t be safer. These are the hands that
shaped the mountains and oceans and flung the stars into space. Nothing in this life or the next “will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord” (ROMANS 8:39).

JESUS HOLDS US AND HE WON’T LET GO.

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