Thought For Today - May 18, 2024
God's Promise of Salvation
By: Robert A. Searles
A cry for help is heard from a lost and dying world. A world
engrossed in sin and evil, shrouded in darkness, and seemingly without
hope, clamors for answers, and gropes at the nearest floating straw
which has no anchor.
For centuries, since the beginning of
time, and when disobedience to God entered the scene, evil has had
dominion over the lives of men and women, causing them to murder, steal,
lie, and commit all manner of cruelty and atrocities toward one
another, and to blaspheme the Holy God who is their creator, and their
source of life and well being, although wicked men and women may not
recognize him as such.
God's laws are ignored, his Holy word
desecrated, and his appeal to the lost to accept his mercy and loving
kindness ridiculed, yet a lost world cries for help, but refuses to
recognize it when it is offered.
Whenever we have a physical
emergency, or a life threatening situation, we send a call to the
nearest aid station, such as to 911, the coast guard, the police, the
firemen, the national guard. We welcome the sound of the siren, and the
first responders when they arrived on the scene.
The inner
soul of all mankind is in a life threatening state called sin, a state
which we are all aware of because we have been given inherent awareness
of our state of affairs. God has declared all to have sinned and come
short of his glory, and consequently, all are lost and without hope in
the world, being separated from God, and trying, by our own efforts to
save ourselves. The world while sinking deeper in the mire of sin,
cries peace! peace! when there is no peace, help! help! when there is no
help but that from God.
The desperate man cries for help
-”From whence cometh my help? The wise man who has discovered his source
of help answers - “My help cometh from the Lord who has made heaven and
earth.” God has promised to help and save the lost if they will call
upon him in truth and by faith, believing his promises. God is not
willing that any should be lost, but that as many as will call and trust
him, he will snatch from the pits of hell and the miry clay, renew a
right spirit within them, clothe them with the garment of Christ's
righteousness, and guarantee them a place in his kingdom, and give them
eternal life.
When the first responders come to save our
physical possessions, and our physical lives, many times they risk and
lose their own lives for the sake of those whom they are trying to
rescue. Jesus said: “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man
should give up his own life for his friend.”
When a loving
heavenly Father responds to the call of a lost sinner, he responds
immediately to the call. Rescue from sin and damnation is sure to the
lost, and it is free to the one who receives it, but it was truly
expensive to God who gave his only begotten son to leave his riches and
glory in heaven to come to a sin cursed world to save the lost. No
one need to be lost forever and spend eternity in hell. God has
promised salvation to all who will believe and receive.
Christ is the answer. He is the first responder to the cry of our soul
for salvation. “Wherefore he is able to save them to the uttermost
that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession
for them.:” Hebrews 7: 25.
“But the salvation of the righteous
is of the Lord; he is their strength in time of trouble, and the Lord
shall help then; he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them
because they trust in him.” Psalm 37: 39, 40.
“And it shall be
said in that day, lo, this is our God; we have waited for him , and he
will save us; this is the Lord; we have waited for him; we will be glad
and rejoice in his salvation. Isaiah 25: 9.
“For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and broken down the middle wall between us.” Ephesians 2:14
“For by grace are ye saved through faith, and that not of yourselves;
it is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast.”
Ephesians 2: 8.9
God has promised salvation to a lost and
dying world, but how shall we be saved? “And they said: believe on
the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.” Acts 16:
31
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