I am sitting here watching a baseball game. A runner just tried to score from second on a base hit. He didn’t make it. The catcher held his ground and the runner was out. Now came the interesting part. The Home Plate umpire vigorously with the usual exaggerated arm thrust loudly yelled, “You’re out!”
For just a moment I saw Lucifer walking up to us with a record of our sins, thrusting his arm and yelling, “You’re out. With a list like this I can convict anyone.” And the truth is we have nothing to say. We cannot deny his list. He does not have to lie about us, even though he would. All he needs to do is tell the unvarnished truth.
Ah do not despair. Here is the really interesting part. All we need do is claim 1 John 1:9 and his list becomes inconsequential. “If we confess our sins He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from ALL unrighteousness.” As far as Jesus is concerned Satan’s list is fiction because there is a new truth. The new truth is found in the Lamb’s Book of Life where all our sins have been blotted out.
So let Lucifer shout “you’re out” until he is blue in the face. The truth is we are safe, safe forever more in the hands of our Jesus who will never let us go.
“And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father’s hand.” John 10:28-9
Written by Roger Bothwell on October 24, 2008
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