Struggling Well With Life

Many of you read this title, and said to yourself, he has finally admitted it. A “kept man” implies that someone is taking good care of you. Though Terri takes great care of me, and there is absolutely no question that I married up, my kept-ness is not about her. I picked a quick book of the Bible this morning to mull over, and was struck and comforted by what I read in Jude. In verse 1 he says that he is writing “to those who have been called, who are loved by God the Father and kept by Jesus Christ”. I never noticed that word before, but I like it. To be kept, taken care of, loved, provided for, protected. Kept. The author bookends this reality in his closing comments, ‘to Him who is able to keep you from falling . . .” Thankful today to be a kept man!