HE IS ABLE TO KEEP YOU: Devotion for Thursday December 31, 2015

HE IS ABLE TO KEEP YOU        Thursday December 31, 2015

Text: Jude 1:24, 25         Memory verse: v 24

God is able, and as willing as able, to keep us from falling, and to present us faultless before the presence of his glory. Not as those who never have been faulty, but as those who, but for God's mercy, and a Saviour's sufferings and merits, might most justly have been condemned long ago. Keeping us as used by Jude involves falling from truth and into error and sin. In all efforts for our own good, we should depend for success wholly upon the grace of God, who is able to save us from sin, to keep us from falling into it, and to present us faultless before the presence of God, with exceeding and eternal joy. To him belongs the glory of all the good which is done or enjoyed, and to him should be given all the praise for ever. Amen.

As we end this year, we should not be anxious about the next year because God who kept you throughout this year is able to keep you in the New Year. All we can do now is to keep trusting on God to sustain us. This is the assurance of Jude to us that God who called us is able to keep from falling off from faith and seeing us through to the end of our race.

Food for Thought: Romans 16:25

Prayer: Lord, as I depend on you, keep me from falling and take me into the New Year in Jesus name.