John 10:27-30 NASB95
My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; [28] and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand. [29] My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand. [30] I and the Father are one.”
I remember when my boys were little, and if we went somewhere as a family, it was my job to hold them by the hand as we walked along. I would tell them to take my hand, and they would, and as they did, my hand took theirs, but the truth was they were not relying on their weak grip of my hand but on my strong grasp of their hand. My grasping of their grasping of my hand. There were times when they even tried to pull their hand out of mine, but it was my strong grip that kept them until they would finally once again stop pulling against my grasp and again start holding the hand that was firmly holding theirs. John Welsh, the son-in-law of John Knox, used to say that our grasping of Christ by faith is itself enclosed within the mighty grasp of Christ, and it is in Christ’s grasp of us rather than in our grasp of him that our salvation is certain and our daily walk in Christ is victorious. We live by the faith of the son of God, and our weak and feeble faith is just a response to His great faithfulness. When the Scripture tells us that “the just shall live by faith,” we are simply being told to offer our mustard seed faith which Christ enfolds into His giant faith, which moves mountains. Our faith is a choice to believe that if we will just rest in His faith, His divine activity in that moment will be manifested.