Are You a Saint?

For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints (1 Corinthians 14:33).

I was once in a church service where the pastor asked all the saints to raise their hands. People shuffled uncomfortably and looked at each other warily, but very few raised their hands. If we've accepted Christ as our Savior, traded our sins for his righteousness, and been made anew in Him, then we are saints. The Bible tells us so.

Sing unto the Lord, O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness (Psalm 30:4).

The Apostle Paul uses the term, "saints," several times for the followers of Christ in his letters, but he wasn't the only one. David used it in the Psalms and John used it in Revelation. Others also hinted at it or used some word that was similar. We, who are in Christ and have Him in us, are saints.

Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus (Revelation 14:12).

Because of what Christ did for us on the cross, God sees us as saints. We belong to Him, and no one can ever change that. Jesus said, "And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my father's hand" (John 10: 28-29).

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