March 3

“With my whole heart I follow hard after You; Your right hand holds me up.” So says Psalm 63:8, and thus it has been proven in the lives of believers throughout the millennia. It is incumbent upon modern-day professors of faith in Jesus Christ to employ the strategy for security that is here proclaimed.

When our whole heart has been delivered to Jesus, when we have placed our lives at His feet and resolved to be steadfast in our devotion to Him, we perpetuate the action that He began when He presented to us the free gift of salvation that He purchased for us on Calvary.

Though we know it is the desire of God’s heart that every man receive the gift and be ushered from death to life, we also know that the Author of our salvation will not intrude upon any man’s free will. The choice is ours to make. We may accept or reject Christ’s propitiatory death in our behalf.

But when the choice has been made to surrender our sin and receive in its place His crown of life, the assurance is that He will be the power behind our resolve. When we are confronted, like Paul, with our proclivity to run to our old ways, the Lord of Life will steer us back to the path of life and hold us securely there.