Are You "Safe in Christ’s Ability"? "He Has the Whole World in His Hands"! Are You There Too by Your Rebirth; by Faith and Repentance? If Not Then Why Not? Ponder That . . . !?
A Devotional for Monday October 26, 2026
From the pen of John Bunyan, author of
The Pilgrim's Progress
Safe in Christ’s Ability
“All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whosever comes to me I will never cast out” John 6: 37.
Has . . . [Christ] power, we know he is willing, else he would not have promised. It is also his glory to pardon and save. So, then, in his ability lies our safety. What if he were never so willing, if he were not of ability sufficient, what would his willingness do? But he has showed . . . his willingness by promising: “Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out: (John 6: 37). So now our comfort lies in his power, in that he is able to make good his word (Romans 4: 20-21).
And this also will then be seen when he hath saved them that come to God by him, when he hath saved them to the uttermost. Not to the uttermost of his ability but to the uttermost of our necessity. For to the uttermost of his ability I believe he will never be put to it to save his church. Not for that he is loath to save but because there is no need to save. He shall not need to put out all his power and to press the utmost of his merit for the saving of his church. Alas! there is sufficiency of merit in him to save a thousand times as many more as are like to be saved by him; “he is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think.”
Measure not, therefore, what he can do by what he has, does, or will do. Neither . . . [should you] interpret this word to the uttermost, as if it related to the uttermost of his ability. But rather as it relates, for so it does indeed, to the greatness of your necessity.
This devotional is taken from my edited Bunyan works Daily Readings – John Bunyan. The book can be seen and purchased at https://www.amazon.com/Daily-Readings-John-Bunyan-ebook/dp/B0DQ98WBFT/ref=books_amazonstores_d_mfs_author_smart_catalog_unrecognized_0?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_w=A92ME&pd_rd_wg=rLSqH&pd_rd_r=a32f690f-d128-46a8-b570-a5def43a37e7&content-id=amzn1.sym.47218010-ccda-4098-a91e-bc39e6d446f4
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