Salvation

When I saw Robin, she said, “Last night at Bible class, John asked the questions ‘What is Salvation’ and ‘what are we saved from?’”  My immediate thought was, “That’s easy.  I am saved from God—His wrath and His judgment.”  But the more I think about it, the more I’m realizing that it’s not true.  I am really being saved from godlessness—or, life without God.

If God were not in my life, I would not have meaning and purpose.  I would have no future and no hope.  Bleakness, misery, anguish, despair, devastation are words that would not even begin to describe the desolation I’d feel in my soul.  I know because I’ve been there.

So when Paul calls to remembrance the “…time you were separate from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of promise, without hope and without God in the world,” (Ephesians 2:12) it resonates with me.

The Good News according to Paul was Jesus, “came and preached peace to you who were far away” (Ephesians 2:17).  But that’s not good news to me.  That’s the best news ever to me.  Jesus is not a crutch to me, as some would allege.  No, Jesus is my life support—because without Him, I’d be dead.