KEPT BY THE POWER OF GOD

 

EVENING DEVOTION by James Smith

APRIL 28

 

1 Peter 1:5

Who are kept by the power of God through faith

unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

 

All the Lord’s people feel that they need keeping, and therefore they pray to be kept.
 
But it is not enough that we pray for keeping;
  we must believe the promises,
      expect their fulfillment, and
           seek for divine keeping in faith.
 
Believing, we grasp the promise,
   keep near the throne,
   walk with God, and are
   kept in dangers and death.
 
Unbelief departs from God, questions his promise,
wanders from the throne and we fall into folly and sin.
 
“Take heed, therefore, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. But exhort one another daily, while it is called TO-DAY; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.”
 
God will not keep you as brutes, but as rational beings; he will not hold you in with bit and bridle, as the diver does with horse or mule, but he will lead you as beloved children, and keep you as intelligent disciples. His power is necessary.
 
His power is pledged to you.
 
But it is only pledged to believers.
 
It is only pledged to believers as exercising faith, hope, and prayer.
 

See the power of God to save!

Jesu’s grace in me admire,

Kept, like Peter, on the wave,

Kept, like Shadrach in the fire.

Rescued from the lion’s teeth,

Safe within the jaws of death.

 
James Smith