Sustained guiltless

I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus, that in every way you were enriched in him in all speech and all knowledge—even as the testimony about Christ was confirmed among you—so that you are not lacking in any gift, as you wait for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ, who will sustain you to the end, guiltless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. (1 Corinthians 1:4-9, ESV)

Here is another place that I am reminded of the Gospel - that Christ has done for His people what they could not do for themselves.

Here, Paul is addressing the Corinthian church which, has a number of problems attributable to the messes the people are making. In other words, these folks were far from perfect, like you and me.

Yet they, and we, are not so far gone that our Lord cannot keep us. If you are His child, this passage says Jesus will sustain you to the end. I like that word 'sustain'. It implies that we are not in a static state, and that without the constant oversight of the Lord Jesus, we would be undone. 

But oversee He does and we are sustained and will be sustained. Christian, have hope for your Lord will sustain you utterly!