Jude 1:20-21
But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
Keep yourselves in the love of God. Stay focused. Remember daily the Lord who bought you at such a great price.
God’s mercy in saving us is like an ever-flowing stream, indeed a river. It is mercy because we don’t deserve it. Left to ourselves, we are rebels. But God has not left us. “While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”
To take this all in is to see produced in us a love for God, and a longing for eternal life. Don’t stop the production. It is God at work in you, both to will and to do His good pleasure.
So fear and tremble, and keep yourselves in the love of God.
