Speaking of the Lord Jesus, Isaiah says:
“I will fasten Him as a nail in a sure place; and He shall be for a glorious throne to His Father’s house: and they shall hang upon Him all the glory of His father’s house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of flagons” (22:23–24).
There is one nail , fastened in a sure place; and on it hang all the flagons and all the cups.
“Oh,” says one little cup, “I am so small and so black, suppose I were to drop!”
“Oh,” says a flagon, “there is no fear of you; but I am so heavy, so very weighty, suppose I were to drop!”
And a little cup says, “Oh, if I were only like the gold cup there, I should never fear falling.”
But the gold cup answers, “It is not because I am a gold cup that I keep up; but because I hang upon the nail.”
If the nail gives way we all come down, gold cups, china cups, pewter cups, and all; but as long as the nail keeps up, all that hang on Him hang safely.
I once read these words on a tombstone:
“Born, died, kept.”
Let us pray God to keep us in perfect peace, and assured of salvation.