All those the Father gives
me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away. For I have come down from
heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me. And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of
all those he has given me, but raise them up at the last day. (John
6:37-39)
He came to do the Father’s will,
which, according to this passage is to lose none of all those the Father had
given Him, but to raise them up at the last day. From a human perspective, that’s
an impossible dream. To not lose one. It makes me wonder about how little we
tend to think God’s will is for us. It’s easy to reach the conclusion that it’s
something we can’t carry out by ourselves. I think, however, that we tend to
think of it as ninety percent us, and ten percent God. Just that icing on the
cake that hides all the cake’s flaws.
Of course, Jesus was and is God, the
Son, so we’re tempted to think that all this was a piece of cake. He knew what
would happen. We don’t. Or do we? We know from this passage that Jesus will not
lose us and that He will raise us up at the last day. That should give us a lot
of confidence. Maybe even enough to step out in faith. Maybe even enough to
stand up to the fears that so often assail us when we are stepping out in faith
(and especially when things don’t go quite according to plan.)
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