{"id":1553,"date":"2021-03-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/?p=1553"},"modified":"2021-03-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T14:00:00","slug":"trust-gods-saving-and-keeping-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/trust-gods-saving-and-keeping-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Trust God\u2019s Saving And Keeping Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If our salvation is assured when we place our trust in Christ, might not some people take advantage of this assurance? Yes, they might\u2014for a time. But as grace goes deep, and as God\u2019s love and kindness sink in, they change. Grace fosters obedience. <i>\u2018The grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people. It teaches us to say \u201cNo\u201d to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age.\u2019<\/i> (Titus\u00a02:11\u201312<sup>\u00a0NIV<\/sup>) <\/p>\n<p>God\u2019s grace does more than comfort you in your troubles; it convicts you in your disobedience. Let it convict you. If you ever catch yourself thinking, \u2018I can do whatever I want because God will forgive me,\u2019 then grace isn\u2019t happening to you. Selfishness, perhaps. Arrogance, for sure. But grace? No. <\/p>\n<p>Grace creates a resolve to do good, not permission to do bad. And one more thought. Look to Christ for your beginning and ending. He\u2019s Alpha <i>and<\/i> Omega. He will hold you, and He will hold on to the ones you love. Do you have a prodigal son or daughter? Do you long for your spouse to come to God? Do you have a friend whose faith has grown cold? God wants them back more than you do. <\/p>\n<p>Keep praying, and don\u2019t give up. The truth is, we don\u2019t always know if someone has trusted God\u2019s grace. A person may have feigned belief but not meant it. It\u2019s not ours to know. But we do know this: where there is genuine conversion, grace never stops working. So today, trust God\u2019s saving and keeping power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If our salvation is assured when we place our trust in Christ, might not some people take advantage of this assurance? Yes, they might\u2014for a time. But as grace goes deep, and as God\u2019s love and kindness sink in, they change. Grace fosters obedience. \u2018The grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}