Even a brood of vipers gets one right sometimes. I remember a friend who tried to convert me away from the Church by trying to spin me this tale of asking Jesus into one's heart. Fortunately for her, and for myself, I was just wise enough about Scripture to know that it wasn't that simple, that one is never "once saved, always saved."

Faith in Christ and being in the grace of God, by which we are saved, is not a one-time thing that forever seals us and sticks like good glue. It's something we do have to work at, something we have to constantly renew and remind ourselves of, through prayer and reconciliation.