Rescuer and the rescued, between the Healer and the healed. The best way to ensure faithfulness is to nurture that relationship. Final salvation, like initial salvation, is appropriated by grace through faith(fulness) (Eph 2:8–10; 1 Pet 1:5). God, of course, will always be faithful and will graciously provide all of the resources the believer needs in order to persevere. The believer’s responsive acts of faithfulness are not a means of earning God’s favor but a sign of love given and received. As