Certain little everyday words can be very important in the Scriptures.
Words like but and therefore.
Or, in today’s case, the word is if.
“This includes you who were once far away from God. You were His enemies, separated from Him by your evil thoughts and actions. Yet now He has reconciled you to Himself through the death of Christ in His physical body. As a result, He has brought you into His own presence, and you are holy and blameless as you stand before Him without a single fault. But you must continue to believe this truth and stand firmly in it. Don’t drift away from the assurance you received when you heard the Good News.”
— Colossians 1:21-23a (NLT)
If.
It’s just two little letters, but it carries so much weight. It invites me to examine my heart, my faith, my walk with Christ. It asks me:
Am I continuing in the faith?
Am I standing firm, stable, and steadfast?
Am I holding tightly to the truth of the Good News?
The reconciliation Jesus offers is life-changing and eternity-shaping. But it’s not passive—it’s an invitation to live actively in His grace, to remain rooted in the hope of the gospel.
Because if I do, He promises to present me holy, blameless, and without a single fault. And that’s a promise worth holding onto!