Salvation, my friend, is not hard. It is simple.If one of your children got lost, you would make it easy for him/her to come back home. You would search everywhere. You would be the aggressor. You would be more anxious, or at least as anxious, for him/her to come home as he/she would be to return home.Our Heavenly Father is the same way. Salvation is not running an obstacle course and hoping you will end up standing up someday when the judgment comes. God has made salvation so simple that the smallest child who understands right from wrong can accept it and be saved. God has made salvation so easy that anybody who knows he/she is a sinner and knows that by faith he/she can receive Christ as Saviour, can be saved. Gods Part in Salvation is Big, Tremendous.Now, to be sure, salvation is big! We stumble over its bigness in an effort to make it complicated, but bear this in mind: All the bigness of salvation is on Gods part, not ours. All the immensity, all the working, all the business, all the complexity, all the theology, all the deep doctrine and all the philosophy of being saved is Gods part.” The thief on the cross simply asked Jesus to remember him, and Jesus most certainly did. It was his faith in Jesus Christ and not his words, that brought salvation. The thief acknowledged his guilt of sin and turned to Jesus Christ for forgiveness. There is nothing “magic” about the words you pray, it is your faith (trust) upon the Gospel of Jesus Christ that brings salvation. It is your faith that causes you to call upon Jesus to forgive your sins and take you to Heaven. God wants to save you more than you could ever want to be saved (2nd Peter 3:9).
Posted on: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 19:26:38 +0000