This Great Salvation

“For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith:…
the just shall live by faith" Romans 1:7

We walk but we don’t always know where we are walking. All that we know is that we are prompted to move prompted to go from here to there. For heaven continues to tug at our hearts. Like an unseen magnet it pulls at us, often asking, calling, and instructing us to leave the cares of this world, the false attitudes of our hearts, and the assurances of the world behind. We learn that we are strangers and pilgrims in this world, that we simply do not belong. Behind our smiles and our ‘howdy’s’ sometimes there’s simply a lot of pain, a lot of loneliness. For we are lonely for something better, something purer, something that we’ve reached after all of our lives but have never attained, that we cannot attain. And yet we hunger so much, we seek after, we are sadden at times by our failure to apprehend and be apprehended {Phil. 3:12-13}.

The road that we walk down is bumpy, full of potholes, cracks, problems, trials, and temptations. Sometimes simply walking down the road will beat a person up. This is not a way for the timid, for the afraid, for the coward, or for the quitter… and this and so much more are who we are. We, of our own accord simply would not choose to go where Christ would send us, to lead us. We are weak within ourselves, we are sometimes foolish and despised and oftentimes rejected {1 Cor. 1:25-27}. The world thinks we are crazy and in a way maybe they have it right… for we are crazy about Jesus Christ. For when his grace and mercy touched our hearts, when he accepted us, loved us, and reached out to us from the cross of Calvary we fell in love with him.

For lets be honest, the way of the flesh is much easier, it requires no effort, it requires no sacrifice, only self indulgence. And sometimes we find ourselves ‘in the flesh’ and our hearts cry… our self-righteousness melts, we are undone, we are afraid, and we are blinded by condemnation, as it is written ‘the way of the transgressor is hard’ {Prov. 13:15}.

Dear friend, in everything, in everyway there is hope and that hope comes through Jesus Christ. In whatever state we find ourselves, we can have the assurance that Christ will not give up on us, he will not abandon us… he will guide us through narrow passages, sometimes very dark, sometimes very lonely, so that our eyes are taken off of self and back onto him. Such is the greatness of His salvation within