Thoughts for another day

May 26, 2014.

Today's verse:  Eph. 2:8, 9. 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. (KJV)

(Pls. read the above before you read further.  Thanks)

How do you think you’re saved?  Is it because you were by birth a Christian or because of your really good nature and your obeying the law of God without knowing it to be His law; or is it because as you grew up you realised there’s life after this life and you started doing good works so whoever was the Authority in the next life would see your work and welcome you?  Not, by a long distance is this right and we know that our thinking would be fallacious if we thought we had anything to do with our salvation for how can we, who’re steeped in sin, ever work out anything by ourselves that will lead us out of this sin?

It’s indeed appalling to say the least that there’re times when the rebel within us, rebels against God and we hear our inner voice say that God had nothing to do with our being saved, because of ‘all the good we do’.  But my friend in this case what’s it that causes you to do good but the Grace of God; and we must shut this rebel up forcefully before his character becomes us and we rebel against God, and stamp him firmly out of our lives, for we can never achieve our salvation by ourselves, lest we be prone to boast it’s by our efforts we became free of sin.  For, it’s God’s Grace and His Grace alone that leads us to be saved.

God’s Grace enables us to accept Him as our Savior; our Redeemer and do Him homage and worship Him whereby we develop faith in Him; faith that tells us He is always there and He is our Omnipotent Father.  It tells us that we drowned in sin, but He sent us His only Son to die for us and pull us out of the deadly muck and cleanses us as white as snow.  It pleases God when a man by virtue of God’s faith implanted in him as a gift, lifts his hands up before Him and thanks Him for his being saved and it’s a great sight for a sinner to confess his sins, believe in the sacrifice of His son by His Grace, and accept Him as Savior.  God’s light will shine on such a person even unto eternal life.