Where does our salvation assurance come from? Grace is the part God plays in saving us. It’s definitely the lead role. Without His mercy, His help, His wisdom, His guidance, His comfort, and His provision we’d be back right where we started, trying to rescue our life by our own means. Happily, our Father is an outrageous giver. You don’t have to earn or deserve His saving help: You just need to become more adept at receiving it.
Our “job” is to get really, really good at believing in the grace that is being offered us by our loving Father. If someone wants to give you a present, you still have to trust enough to receive it. Believing leads to trusting and trusting leads to receiving. That is the way of faith which opens wide the door for the Lord’s salvation to stream into every area of our life.
There are a few things that God didn’t tell you when you were born—or even ask your permission to do! Stay with me on this wry look at an imaginary scene in heaven. Suppose the Father had seated you on His loving knee and asked if you wanted to help Him out with a little rescue campaign He was operating on planet Earth (I know that nobody is in heaven before they’re born—just play along)…
This is the preface from a truly unbelievable story that I was sitting on for almost 40 years. I had been threatening for some time to write down my years before Christ, saying it would be a tale “no one would believe,” but that it needed to be written anyway. Seems like the Lord agreed—I was provided a mountain retreat for two weeks and the project simply took wings. Rescued from Hell: An Odyssey of Deception and Discovery Preface In…
Are you a seeker? The critical step is the one you have already taken, so relax. You are a seeker, or you wouldn’t be scouring the web looking for an answer. The insurmountable obstacle would be if you had no interest in seeking God or His salvation. The “Hidden” Assignment The most important task imaginable lies right in front of you. We are disconnected from our God and we know it. What will you do about it? Our lives are…
We all want to be accepted, don’t we? We yearn to find those people, places and events where we feel like we truly belong, where we can “be ourselves” and not have to put up a false front. What if there is a place we can always go and be accepted immediately—just as we are, even when we are most messed up? What if there is someone who will never push us away, but always welcome us with open arms?…
Where does our salvation assurance come from? Grace is the part God plays in saving us. It’s definitely the lead role. Without His mercy, His help, His wisdom, His guidance, His comfort, and His provision we’d be back right where we started, trying to rescue our life by our own means. Happily, our Father is an outrageous giver. You don’t have to earn or deserve His saving help: You just need to become more adept at receiving it.
