Can I lose my salvation?

I hear the fear beneath this question, and I want to sit with it a moment, because it is a question that has haunted many tender souls who love God and dread losing Him. Let me offer you what I believe to be true. Salvation, rightly understood, is not a fragile possession granted on condition and revoked upon failure. It is the truth of who you already are: the spiritual image and likeness of God, inseparable from Him as a wave is inseparable from the ocean. Jesus said, "The kingdom of God is within you" (Luke 17:21, KJV), and what is within you cannot be taken from you by any stumble or wandering. If salvation could be lost, then God's love would be conditional, and Jesus revealed a Father whose love is not. Consider the shepherd who "go after that which is lost, until he find it" (Luke 15:4, KJV), and the father who ran to embrace his returning son while he "was yet a great way off" (Luke 15:20, KJV). Notice that the son remained a son the whole time he was away; he neverceased to belong. His "lostness" was ignorance of his place at the table, not a change in his father's heart. I know some passages speak of branches cast into the fire and names blotted from a book, and these can frighten (John 15:6, KJV). But I would read them as warnings against forgetting your true nature, not as threats that God's mercy runs out. Sin is not a stain that condemns you eternally; it is the belief that you are separated from Good, and that belief is the only thing ever truly "lost" when you awaken. Jesus promised, "I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand" (John 10:28, KJV). What you may lose, again and again, is your awareness of this, drifting into fear or forgetfulness. But awareness can always be recovered, for the truth of you never changed. So I would gently turn the question around: not "Can I lose my salvation?" but "What within me has convinced me I couldever be separated from the God who is All?"