I LOVE the way Oswald Chambers says this in today's "My Utmost For His Highest"!
For if, when we were
enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son, much more, being
reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. —Roman 5:10
I am not saved by believing;
I realise I am saved by believing. It is not repentance that saves me;
repentance is the sign that I realise what God has done in Christ Jesus. The
danger is to put the emphasis on the effect instead of on the cause — “It is my
obedience that puts me right with God, my consecration.” Never! I am put right
with God because prior to all, Christ died. When I turn to God and by belief
accept what God reveals I can accept, instantly the stupendous Atonement of
Jesus Christ rushes me into a right relationship with God, and by the
supernatural miracle of God’s grace I stand justified, not because I am sorry
for my sin, not because I have repented, but because of what Jesus has done.
The spirit of God brings it with a breaking, all-over light, and I know, though
I do not know how, that I am saved.
The salvation of God does not
stand on human logic, it stands on the sacrificial Death of Jesus. We can be
born again because of the Atonement of Our Lord. Sinful men and women can be
changed into new creatures, not by their repentance or their belief, but by the
marvellous work of God in Christ Jesus which is prior to all experience. The
impregnable safety of justification and sanctification is God Himself. We have
not to work out these things ourselves; they have been worked out by the
Atonement: The supernatural becomes natural by the miracle of God; there is the
realisation of what Jesus Christ has already done — “It is finished.”
AMEN! There is not one thing that WE must do to be 'saved' except to RECEIVE what JESUS has already done! I have heard so many people, who do not want to be judged for their own actions, who will say that they can tell if someone is saved or not by the way that they act! Almighty God Himself is the ONLY One Who knows the heart of each person! Our responsibility is to preach the Gospel, giving everyone we come in contact with the opportunity to be saved! Our next responsibility is to pray for them. Anything else is NOT our business! We should be ever ready to believe the BEST of each other and PRAY! If we, as the Body of Christ, can do this, then we will be a GREAT example of operating in the joy of the Lord, wherein is GREAT strength! When we pray for each other, we give God something to work with, and HE is the One Who will speak to His own children. This SHOULD be a great relief to many of you! Refuse to be a Martha, who was worried about many things, when only ONE thing was needful! Luke 10:41-42:
41 But the Lord replied to her by saying, Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things; 42 There is need of only one thing. Mary has chosen the good portion [that which is to her advantage], which shall not be taken away from her.
Holy Spirit can do more with our godly example and genuine love and enthusiasm for the things of God than with anything that we can say by way of our own fleshly correction! BE THE LIGHT and let HIM work HIS work! AMEN! Here is Hillsong Worship with "In God We Trust":
Shalom in Him!
