Will you be a believer tomorrow morning?

Christian, how do you know you will still be a believer when you wake up in the morning? And every morning until you meet Jesus? The biblical answer is: God will take care of it.

Do you agree with this? Does it worry you that your faith is ultimately dependent on God? I hope this is your joy and song. Believing this has enormous consequences. Let the Word of God shape your thinking on this.

We must endure.

The word «must» by itself is not a gospel word. By itself, it sounds threatening and burdensome. But it does not stand alone in the Bible. «We must» exists alongside «He will» and «We will.» «We must» becomes «We will» because «God will.».

• «"If we are justified by faith, we will be glorified. This is already practically accomplished.".
• «But he who endures to the end will be saved» (Mark 13:13).
• «If we endure, we will also reign with Him; if we deny Him, He also will deny us» (2 Tim. 2:12).
• «I declare to you, brothers, the gospel which I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast the word just as I preached it to you; otherwise, you have believed in vain» (1 Cor. 15:1–2).

God will protect you.

Enduring faith is not the result of our first profession of faith, any more than health is the result of a single vaccination. Enduring faith exists because the Great Physician does His sustaining work daily. We continue to believe in Christ not because of «antibodies» after conversion, but because God does His life-giving work daily to preserve faith.

• «Now to Him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you faultless before the presence of His glory with great joy» (Jude 1:24).
• «I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ» (Phil. 1:6).
• «I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will never again turn away from them or turn away from doing them good. I will put the fear of me in their hearts, so that they will never again turn away from me» (Jer. 32:40).
• «He will also confirm you to the end, blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is faithful, by whom you were called into fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord» (1 Cor. 1:8–9).
• «The Lord will deliver me from every evil work and will preserve me for his heavenly kingdom. To him be glory forever and ever. Amen» (2 Tim. 4:18).

We will endure.

Because God will see to it, we can—not just must—endure to the end. If we are justified by faith, we will be glorified. This is already practically accomplished.

• «And whom he did predestinate, them he also called; and whom he called, them he also justified; and whom he justified, them he also glorified» (Rom. 8:30).

Four answers to this security

1. Surrender to Him

We give up the burden of self-preservation. We stop fussing and let the rescuer carry us out of the burning house. We can't do it ourselves. He can. He will.

• «I know, O Jehovah, that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps» (Jer. 10:23).

2. Rejoice in Him

«"Your future is secured by your almighty, ever-preserving God.".

Does not your heart respond to the joy of Charles Spurgeon when he said: «Oh, dear friends, the heart rejoices when you think of those mighty «wills» and «musts»—those immovable pillars that death and hell cannot shake—the «wills» and «musts» of God, who «speaks, and it comes to pass»« (The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Vol. IX, p. 364). »Faithful is He that calleth you, who also will do it« (1 Thess. 5:24).

3. Rest in Him

• «Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest!» (Matthew 11:28).

The yoke is easy, and the burden is light, for God says, "I will carry you, and you will rest in Me.".

• «Even to your old age I am the same, and even to your gray hairs I will carry you. I have made you, and I will carry you; I will sustain you, and I will rescue you» (Isaiah 46:4).

4. Take a Risk with Him

If you know that your future is secured by your Almighty, ever-Preserving God, the threats of earth and hell cannot stop you from spreading His glory. Paul says, «What shall we say then? If God is for us, who can be against us?» (Rom. 8:31). Therefore, we risk «tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword» (Rom. 8:35). For nothing «will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord!» (Rom. 8:39).