I Am Safe

Meditations on

Staying In the Grace for Today

August 8, 2025

I Am Safe

We know that when Jesus was raised from the dead

it was a signal of the end of death-as-the-end.

Never again will death have the last word.

Romans 6:6 (MSG) 

I hope you will read Romans 6 from The Message. I believe Mr. Peterson’s translation of this chapter is some of the most powerful prose in The Message. Today I am focused on his delightful phrase, “the end of death-as-the-end. Never again will death have the last word.” After reading today’s passage, what word do you take away? For me, it is the word, safe. I am safe in the love of Jesus.

Because I believe the resurrection of Jesus, it is safe for me to believe the rest of the story which includes all the imperatives in this week’s meditations to make the life in Christ my way of life. As arduous as the pursuit of love and truth may be, I am safe to engage in this pursuit because I know death will not have the last word for my life. Jesus gets that last word and his word is, “I am going to prepare a place for you When everything is ready, I will come and get you, so that you will always be with me where I am.” (John 14:2-3)

My Takeaway: “Jesus told her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Anyone who believes in me will live, even after dying.” The resurrection was not an event. The resurrection is a person, Christ Jesus. My life’s quest is to lay hold of him, Christ Jesus, who has laid hold of me. I am safe in his grasp. I am safe to give myself to God as He forms Christ in me. I am safe!!! 

Sē’lah

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(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

 

These meditations are written by Alex M. Knight as he seeks the life in Christ as his way of life.  The meditations are published on the BLOG, http://seekingthelifeinchrist.blogspot.com/ and they are also distributed on the Constant Contact email server. You may subscribe to this email service by sending an email to: amkrom812@gmail.com.

 

Copyright © 2025 by Alex M. Knight

 

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