Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
1 Peter 1:3 - 4
Don’t you love having a reservation? You pull up to your favorite place and notice that there is a long line of people waiting to get in. No matter. You’ve got a reservation.
You step past the waiting crowd and catch the eye of the maitre’d. “I called ahead. I’ve got a reservation. Table for two. The name’s Burger.”
As he checks his list you glance around. You notice people staring, others whispering with nods in your direction. You know what they’re saying. They’re saying, “How’d he get up there?” “He must be someone important; He must know someone. Do you recognize him?”
After just a few moments you hear, “Ah yes! Mr. Burger, Welcome! Right this way” And you are shown to your place.
After a long, hectic week it’s nice to know you have a reservation at your favorite place, isn’t it? Well, after a long, hectic life it’s nice to know you’ve got a reservation, too.
There’s a reservation with your name on it at the end of this life. Peter said that there’s a place in heaven reserved for you. I’m not sure how it will look, or how it will all work when you get there, but you can be sure of this: You’ve got a reservation. Your place is guaranteed. You’re getting in.
Maybe you’ve had a bad day or a bad week and you’ve wondered. If so, you can relax. We all have bad days, days where things just don’t go well. We’ve all had those weeks where nothing seemed to go as planned and our whole lives seemed to be unraveling. Situations get sticky and people get testy. Maybe you’ve even lost your temper this week; said something you shouldn’t have or wished people or circumstances were different because you don’t like either right now. Those are the times that we don’t feel much like Christians. Sometimes we just don’t feel very ‘saved’, do we? Here’s a question: What are Christians supposed to feel like, anyway?
I’m not trying to be critical, or to downplay those very real feelings. But the Bible teaches us that “the just shall live by faith.” Feelings come and go. Feelings will fool you. They’ll leave you feeling like a fool, too. This Christian life that we’ve embarked on is a life lived by faith, not feelings.
Feelings are fragile. Faith is not. And your salvation isn’t fragile either. It isn’t something we carry around gingerly; concerned that it may break or won’t last.
Many Christians worry that they might lose their salvation. That’s a question I get asked a lot. “Chaplain, can I lose my salvation? I’ve had a bad week, you know, and I’m kind of nervous about it.” Or, “I’m just not sure I’m saved anymore. It doesn’t feel like it used to. Is it possible I’ve lost my salvation, chaplain?”
I know people who constantly lose their keys. They set them down almost anywhere and then forget what they did with them. But I just don’t believe that you can misplace your salvation like a set of keys. And I don’t believe it can slip away from you like change out of your pockets.
How can you lose something that Jesus called “eternal”? Didn’t Jesus say, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.”? And, “My sheep know My voice; I know them and they follow Me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish.”
That’s quite a word, isn’t it? Eternal. There’s no constraint on eternal. It’s not bound by time or environment. Conditions can’t change it and feelings can’t foul it. When something is eternal it is forever true and changeless.
I’m so glad Jesus used the word “eternal” in describing this life He’s given us.
Somebody would have to explain to me how something that the Bible says is “imperishable” and “undefiled” and that “will not fade away” can be inadvertently lost. I just don’t see myself (or you) being able to lose something the Bible says is “reserved in heaven for you”. To think that I can lose what Jesus Christ accomplished on the cross of
Feelings come and go. Bad days happen to all of us. That’s all a part of life. There may be many things in this life that bring you cause for concern. You may worry about your children. They don’t always do what we want them to do, do they? You might be concerned about finances. There’s just never quite enough to make ends meet. Just once you’d like to be able to do what you’ve dreamt of doing without the worry about what it will do to the budget. You may stew about things that just don’t seem right in life. But your salvation should not cause you to fret.
No matter how things go in this life, please remember: You’ve got a reservation! That one thought will carry you through the rough patches. One day, you’re going to get there and you’ll know: it was all worth it.
A simple faith will get you there.
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