Another Late Night Blog

It is currently 12:20 and I am wide awake. I hate when this happens. I'm tired but my brain is going about 150 miles per hour. I guess since I wont be headed to bed any time soon, much to my dismay, I will go ahead and do part two of the blog posted before New Years.

That's right, time for salvation as promised! The more I read this book the more I realize that everything that he is saying is everything you have probably heard (if you grew up in a church) a million times since you were two, but it is also stuff that we tend to take for granted on a daily basis.

Salvation is defined typically as deliverance from sin, self, and hell. We most often view it as being saved from hell and something bad, but that is a very narrow interpretation of it. We were saved for something good. God's gift of salvation is freedom, purpose, and life. Jesus came to save you from sin and yourself. We are the source of our own problems and sin. Salvation is freedom. Freedom from guilt over the past. Freedom from bitterness and resentment. Freedom from the expectations of others. Freedom from addictive habits. Freedom from fear of death.

Jesus came to save you for a purpose. God has never created anything without a purpose. Jesus came to save you by His grace. Salvation is trust. You can never prove you deserve it, because no one does. It is by trusting God and faith in Him that we can have salvation. We were made to know, love, trust and serve God. People often try to fill a void in their lives by other means, but what they are searching for is the love of God displayed so perfectly by Him sending his own son to live a sinless life and die for us.

We should daily recognize the sacrifice that Christ made for us. It is amazing to think that the creator Himself came as a humble baby in a manger dependant on a young virgin, lived a sinless life, died on an old rugged cross, and gave His all just to save us. Pretty awesome, isn't it?

"When the right time finally came, God sent his own Son. He came as the son of a human monther and lived under the Jewish Law." Galationa 4:4