Safe In the Arms of God
What does it mean to be safe in the arms of God?
Can the Christ follower have assurance of salvation?
Jesus promised His sheep that they would be secure in Him. He stated,
I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one will snatch them out of my hand.
John 10:28 (CSB)
If you are a Christ follower, Jesus has purchased you with His shed blood on the cross. He paid the ransom for your freedom. He lived a perfect life in your place that you could not live. He died a death that you deserve. He accomplished what He set out to do for your salvation. His success in His mission is marked by His final words, “It is finished.” So, if you have genuinely turned from your sin and yourself, trusted Jesus for who He is and what He’s done as the only way to eternal life, and given Him control of your life, you are His child. He will not allow one of His children to be snatched from His hand. He is faithful even when we are faithless.
His faithfulness does not give us a license to sin. If that is our attitude, we do not reflect the identity of being His children. Rather, we show ourselves to be quite the opposite because we are seeking to use Him rather than surrendering to Him as Lord.
So, if He is indeed your Lord and Savior, you cannot fall out of His arms. Your salvation is based upon His work and His strength, not your own.
Can you say that you are safe in the arms of Christ? Have you surrendered your life to Him? Are you a follower of the Good Shepherd?
Jesus’ promise to His sheep is that no one can snatch them from His hand. They are safe in the arms of God.
Blessings!
Tim McKnight is the founder and President of McKnight Ministries©, the nonprofit parent of Engage Every Generation. He is an Associate Professor of Missions and Youth Ministry and Director of the Great Commission Center at Anderson University. Tim is on the speaking team for Clayton King Ministries. Also, he is the lead pastor and planter of a new church plant, Mosaic Church of Anderson. Tim is the author of No Better Gospel (2017), Engaging Generation Z (Kregel 2021), and editor of Navigating Youth Ministry (B&H Academic 2022).
Tim started ministry in 1991 and has served churches in Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Alabama, North Carolina, and South Carolina as a youth pastor, associate pastor, and lead pastor. He holds a B.S. in Criminal Justice from Bluefield College, and a M.Div. and Ph.D. from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. His primary field of study for the Ph.D. was in evangelism, with additional studies in missions and church history. His dissertation was on The Theology and Methodology of Evangelism of George Whitefield.
He served as a US Army Chaplain in the Kentucky Army National Guard, deploying on Operation Noble Eagle (2001) and Operation Enduring Freedom (2002). He is a recipient of the Kentucky Army National Guard Distinguished Service Medal.
He is a husband to Angela, father to Micah, Noah, Karissa, and MaryAnna. The most important thing he would want you to know about himself is that he is a follower of Jesus Christ.
