GOD'S SALVATION PLAN IS COMPREHENSIVE AND COMPLETE. He not only saves us, but He keeps us until we finally arrive home. All God's people need God's keeping, and therefore they pray to be kept. But it is not enough that we pray for keeping, we must believe also the promises, expect their fulfilment, and seek for divine keeping in faith. Believing, we grasp the promise, keep near the throne, walk with God, and are kept in dangers and death. Unbelief departs from God, questions His promise, wanders from the throne, and we fall into folly and sin. "Take heed, therefore, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. But exhort one another daily, while it is called today; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin." God will not keep you as brutes, but as rational beings; He will not hold you in with bit and bridle as horse or mule, but He will lead you as beloved children, and keep you as loyal disciples. His power is necessary: it is pledged to you. But it is only pledged to believers, to believers as exercising faith, hope, and prayer.

For Meditation:
See the power of God to save!
Jesus' grace in me admire;
Kept like Peter on the wave,
Kept like Shadrach in the fire;
Rescued from the lion's teeth,
Safe within the jaws of death.