Secure in Christ

Justified believers enjoy a blessing far greater than a periodic approach to God or an occasional audience with the king.  We are privileged to live in the temple and in the palace ... Our relationship with God, into which justification has brought us, is not sporadic but continuous, not precarious but secure.  We do not fall in and out of grace like courtiers who may find themselves in and out of favour with their sovereign, or politicians with the public.  No, we *stand* in it, for that is the nature of grace.  Nothing can separate us from God's love (Rom. 8:38f.).
--John stott