Jesus answered, “I did tell you, but you do not believe. The miracles I do in my Father’s name speak for me, but you do not believe because you are not my sheep. My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one can snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father's hand. I and the Father are one.” John 10:25-30 (NIV)
No child of the King shall ever perish. God’s oath, His promise, His power, His honor, His grace, all ensure those who have put their trust in Christ that they shall never be cast away. If you are His, you are always His. Unbelieving fears are to be banished as they dishonor our God Who saves. It is sinful to doubt His word where He has promised that we shall not perish but have eternal life. His unfailing love will never be shaken nor His covenant of everlasting peace be removed for every child of mercy. If God is our Father, we shall not lack anything He deems to be good as no good thing does He withhold.
We are not our own. We have been bought with the high price of Jesus’ blood and we are to honor God with our bodies. That is, we are to listen and follow His leading. We often approach God to ask and plead and talk rather than to listen to His still small voice and obey. He speaks to us in our hearts through being still before Him, through meditating on His word, through the Godly counsel of others and through a myriad of other ways. Indeed, He is constantly speaking to us as we were made for relationship with Him, and He is creative in doing so. “Where are you?” God calls to Adam and Eve after the fall (knowing full well where they were) – yet they were now hiding because sin had become known to them and broken their relationship – and this, all the way back in Genesis. Are we His? Or are we like Adam, running and hiding? Thankfully, Christ came to restore this relationship. Through His blood, believers are now clothed in His robe of righteousness. If we are wise we will not neglect such a great salvation.
We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God. God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. 2 Corinthians 5:20-21 (NIV)