Faith's Checkbook (By: C.H. Spurgeon)

                                                          Perfection and Preservation

                                      He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it.
                                                                            ~ 1 Thessalonians 5:24

  "What will He do? He will sanctify us wholly. He will carry on the work of purification till we are perfect in every part. He will preserve our "whole spirit, soul, and body" blameless until His coming. He will not allow us to fall from grace, nor come under the dominion of sin.
  Who will do this? The Lord has called us out of darkness into His marvelous light, out of death in sin into eternal life in Christ Jesus. Only He can do this.
  Why will He do it? Because He is "faithful" - faithful to His own promise, which is pledged to save the believer; faithful to His Son, whose reward it is that His people shall be presented to Him faultless; faithful to the work which He has commenced in us.
  Come, my soul, here is a grand feast. There may be fogs without, but there should be sunshine within." (By: Charles H. Spurgeon ~ One Minute Devotions)