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FAQ # 21
QUESTION 21 : I’m
afraid to become saved because I don’t want to get in and come back out
(“backslide”), I’ll rather wait until I’m ready. Isn’t that the right
thing to do?
I don’t know, but in my circle
at the time of my conversion, many people if not all unsaved persons had
that view and used it often, including myself. In fact, my cry was, “I
can’t be a Christian in school, not with my friends; I’m just going to
backslide, I’ll wait until I get out.”
Luckily, God didn’t give up
on me and it was after my conversion that I found out that those were
only lies and elements of doubts and fears. They were the devil’s devices
to keep me out of the kingdom of God; as even Omar Lloyd, a born again
friend at the time, reassured me that was what kept him from becoming
born again too.
I later found out that it
wasn't solely dependent upon me to stay saved, but rather God through
the Holy Ghost would keep me.
I had no knowledge of these
two promises by him,
- “And I will put my spirit within
you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments,
and do them” (Eze 36:27). And,
- “Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun
a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ” (Phil
1:6).
Rest assured that if one is truly repentant and
consequently become born again, God will keep you; that’s his promise. We are saved from condemnation and kept safe
from it; reconciled after alienation and kept reconciled (Rom 5:9).
I know that without a doubt.
He is the only wise God who is “able to keep us
from falling and to present us faultless before his glory” (Jude 1:24).
Even if one strays, he promised to leave the “ninety
and nine” and go get that lost sheep. After all, he is God, give him some
credit (look who is now talking).
Christ boasts of this fact and we can rest assured
on it; he himself said,
“I give unto them eternal life; and they shall
never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand”
(John 10:28).
I was fortunate to get in,
even though I delayed, you might not have that chance. “Today, if you
hear his voice harden not your heart!”
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