Consider the source of your salvation and your assurance. If our salvation were a cooperative effort between God and man, how could this provide a strong encouragement? Salvation and its assurance would be reduced to "You will not be lost if *you*… If God's promises depended on us, we are without any consolation at all. What we think we have today may vanish tomorrow. Even the chain of salvation is only as strong as its weakest link. Are you one of those links? We can find great comfort in the fact that we are not. Each link is unbreakable because God's promise is unbreakable. Each one is guarded by God's unchanging character, His eternal decree, and His solemn oath. So, look away from yourself. Look away from your heart, from your sins, from your trials, and from your doubts. Look to the High Priest who has once-for-all entered the Most Holy Place and has secured your sonship with the Father.