Reformed Doctrine Daily Devotions

 ³  “This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.

 ⁴  “I glorified You on the earth, having accomplished the work which You have given Me to do.

 ⁵  “Now, Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was.”  John 17:1-5. 

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“My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me;  and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish;  and no one will snatch them out of My hand.”  John 10:27-28.

Our comfort is not that we will do sufficient works nor that we will generate or maintain enough faith nor even that we will timely join and faithfully stay at the right church.  Our comfort is that we have God the Father Who elected us and God the Son (Jesus Christ) Who accomplished all the work necessary to secure and preserve our salvation.

Our comfort is not that we belong to the right church, the right denomination, or that we even call ourselves Christians.  Our comfort is that we belong to our faithful Savior Jesus Christ.

Question 1.  What is thy only comfort in life and death?

Answer.  That I with body and soul, both in life and death, am not my own, but belong unto my faithful Savior Jesus Christ;  who, with his precious blood, hath fully satisfied for all my sins, and delivered me from all the power of the devil;  and so preserves me that without the will of my heavenly Father, not a hair can fall from my head;  yea, that all things must be subservient to my salvation, and therefore, by his Holy Spirit, he also assures me of eternal life, and makes me sincerely willing and ready, henceforth, to live unto him.  The Heidelberg Catechism.