We Are Not Alone

Jude 24,25: "Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy, To God, our Savior who alone is wise, be glory and majesty, dominion and power both now and forever. Amen."

That word-- keep-- means to preserve, to save,  to watch, on guard. A lot of people try to keep and preserve their bodies with creams, pills, oils, lotions, etc. Just walk through the health and beauty aisle at any store or walk through the malls. They are all over. But there is only One who can keep and preserve us from stumbling spiritually.

Anyone can stumble in the natural. But in our spiritual walk we don't have to stumble. Some Christians when they get down, when they do stumble- they have no desire to get back up again. But God can keep us from stumbling.  He can preserve us faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy. When things go wrong we don't have to blame God. Like Job, we must keep our integrity before God.

But we must be listening for the Lord's voice. Our 2 year old lab goes outside but then gets very distracted and never hears us calling her. Her attention is on the things she wants to see and do.  Then we have to call very loudly for her, sometimes knocking on the storm door or going out to try and get her attention. Sometimes we are  like that dog. We are so busy and distracted with our own thing, we don't hear God's voice. We must be careful to listen for His voice. He wants to keep us from danger.

2 Thessalonians 3:3: "But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you and guard you from the evil one.

2 Timothy 1:12: "For this reason I also suffer these things; nevertheless I am not ashamed for I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to keep what I have committed to Him until that Day."

(Taken from Pastor Keith's message- 4/3/2016)