No take backs

For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. – Romans 11.29

A few days ago I mentioned a phrase that, though I have not heard it in ages, I am sure is not politcially correct. American children have used (and may still) to describe a person who gives something but eventually takes it back. I don’t know why that is a phrase – if any gave things and then took them back in dealing the American Indians it was the US government who gave them lands them lands and them took them back. Maybe a better term would have been a ‘government giver.’

When made trades as kids there was a general rule that was usually spoken out loud. We said ‘no take backs.’ That meant what it sounds like – the deal was final.

What do my childhood memories have to do with the book of Romans? A lot I think.

We have been reading about the gift and the calling of salvation. We have seen that it is all of God.

Here we read simply that God does what He says He will do. That is His nature. Way back in the book of Numbers we read - "God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?

God does what He sees when He calls us to salvation He doesn’t take it back. When He gives salvation He is no ‘Indian giver.’

There are no ‘take backs’ when it comes to God and His precious gift of salvation.