Would God just give up on some christians?

God never gives up on His children whom He has called to Himself for eternal fellowship.

"God is faithful, who has called you into fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord" (1 Cor 1:9, TNIV).

 

That is a fair question. The Greek word used is agape, which means to value your enemies. That doesn't mean you have to have a warm and fuzzy feeling, but it seems to mean that you value them as human beings and as folks that God wants to see come to salvation.

Hope that helps a bit.

 

We humans aren't cut out of the same cookie cutter when God made us. We all have different learning curves based on our innate free-will or willingness to see, abide, or commit to God's will.

What I thought was full commitment 20 years ago, seems very shallow indeed compared to where my walk or life in Christ is now.

Life on earth for the Christian is God's teaching ground to mold us into beings more Christlike. Some of us will not respond as quickly or easily as others. Some of us need a slight pat on the behind to get with the act and realize how trully inept and incapable of forging through life successfully on our own without heeding the Holy Spirit is, while others of us need a good wack on the side of the head with a 2x4 from God. We are all loved greatly by our Creator, us Christians. God knitted us in our mother's wombs, and knows us inside and out. He's got us in process, whether we know it or not. If we realize it, we begin to cooperate with Him and most likely the sanctification process in our individual lives speeds up.

Yes, one can be a Christian and not desire growth or more intimate communion with their Creator. It has so much to do with inside and outside elements in our lives. Some of us are just so headstrong, and some of us are more pliable.

 

Becoming and living as a Christian involve many "impossible" things, because both are accomplished by an almighty God Who delights to do what we think of as "impossible". For instance, God says that the wages of sin is death, yet He saves sinners in such a way that His perfect justice remains intact. In the same way, no Christian can claim that they manage to love their enemies by their own ability; they need God's help.



To imagine that God could ever get fed up with, and cast off someone He has saved just does not line up with Scripture. Sinners don't save themselves. Jesus Christ saves them. Hebrews 7.25:

Therefore He is also able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.


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"To the uttermost" - His salvation is complete in every sense. Certainly Christians still sin, and in doing so they displease God, but as John wrote to Christians, in 1 John 1.9:

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.​

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