10/09/2025 – “Now to Him who is able to protect you from stumbling and to make you stand in the presence of His glory, blameless and with great joy, to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, power, and authority before all time, now and forever. Amen.” (Jude 1:24)// Morning Devotion
“Able to keep you from falling.”
Jude 24
In some sense the path to heaven is very safe, but in other respects there is no road so dangerous. It is beset with difficulties. One false step (and how easy it is to take that if grace be absent), and down we go. What a slippery path is that which some of us have to tread! How many times have we to exclaim with the Psalmist, “My feet were almost gone, my steps had well nigh slipped.” If we were strong, sure-footed mountaineers, this would not matter so much; but in ourselves, how weak we are! In the best roads we soon falter, in the smoothest paths we quickly stumble. These feeble knees of ours can scarcely support our tottering weight. A straw may throw us, and a pebble can wound us; we are mere children tremblingly taking our first steps in the walk of faith, our heavenly Father holds us by the arms or we should soon be down. Oh, if we are kept from falling, how must we bless the patient power which watches over us day by day! Think, how prone we are to sin, how apt to choose danger, how strong our tendency to cast ourselves down, and these reflections will make us sing more sweetly than we have ever done, “Glory be to him, who is able to keep us from falling.” We have many foes who try to push us down. The road is rough and we are weak, but in addition to this, enemies lurk in ambush, who rush out when we least expect them, and labour to trip us up, or hurl us down the nearest precipice. Only an Almighty arm can preserve us from these unseen foes, who are seeking to destroy us. Such an arm is engaged for our defence. He is faithful that hath promised, and he is able to keep us from falling, so that with a deep sense of our utter weakness, we may cherish a firm belief in our perfect safety, and say, with joyful confidence,
“Against me earth and hell combine,
But on my side is power divine;
Jesus is all, and he is mine!”
Soli Deo Gloria!
2 comments on “10/09/2025 – “Now to Him who is able to protect you from stumbling and to make you stand in the presence of His glory, blameless and with great joy, to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, power, and authority before all time, now and forever. Amen.” (Jude 1:24)// Morning Devotion”
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Mike
Great post today😃
…………I’m thinking how the theme you used here, “ mountain climber “, resonates with me.
Signifies how perseverance is everything to achieve faith. God is amazing….. how he designs for us to culminate a character of perseverance and belief to encounter faith. This points to how unique He is, and we plainly can’t figure His ways without accepting Him for Him.
“He is able to keep us from falling”. 🤍
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Indeed Mike; thanks! It is not about the messenger but Oswald Chambers is solid, I find his devotionals have that tendency to challenge. And this theme reminds me of the old Christian classic: “The Pilgrim’s Progress” by John Bunyan.
Here is a link that summarizes this book:
https://www.crossway.org/articles/10-things-you-should-know-about-pilgrims-progress/
We all have a “fallback” tendency to rest in God’s grace and our personal salvation. But the LORD is not calling us to rest in our salvation, we rest with Him in His presence, amidst our battles for Him.
I can’t remember where I heard it, but I posted this recently: “We have a very short window of opportunity, an opportunity that we won’t have in heaven: To witness to lost souls and suffer for His name!
This opportunity is like a breath and then it will be gone forever.
Blessings to your day Mike! Always connected through prayer and by His grace!