We live in the information age, and the data we work with every day is very critical to our personal and professional lives. Have you ever been working on a document or spreadsheet for a long time, and you forget to ‘Hit Save’, and then your computer locks up or there’s a power surge/outage? This is so frustrating. All of your work is lost in the blink of an eye. The key is always save your document to the hard drive initially, and always ‘Hit Save’ after every couple of paragraphs, or every 5-10 minutes. Also, remember to save all your critical data to backup storage media on a daily or weekly basis. Today, it’s all about the information.
Likewise, many people live for years and years and the ‘Save’ button for their souls has never been hit. Most people today miss Heaven because they are taken up with things perhaps not evil in themselves, but secondary interests that keep them from God’s best. They are too busy or distracted to realize the importance of their souls. But until your soul is saved, it is in serious danger of being lost eternally. At any time you could die, and your soul would be lost forever. You may ask, “How do you ‘Hit Save’ for your soul? That’s a good question. Well, you can’t ‘Hit Save’ for your soul, you must ask another Person to do it for you, and that Person is the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. He will save you once and forever if you only LET Him. Jesus Christ created your soul, He died and rose again from the dead for your soul, and He is the only One who can save your soul from eternal death and hell.
We are all sinners, we are born that way. We have a ‘sin nature’ we received from ‘Adam,’ and it causes us to rebel against the commandments of God. This rebellion provokes the wrath of God toward us. Sin leaves us in a wretched and hopeless state of misery. Sin leaves us guilty and full of shame and fear. Our conscience has warned us over and over to do the right thing, but we loved darkness rather than light, because our deeds are evil.
The Bible says while you are in your sins, you are under the wrath of God. (See John 3:36) But God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us (Rom 5:8). Christ died for the ungodly, not the self-righteous. Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, not good people. Only bad people (sinners) can be saved from their sins. There is no hope for the self-righteous. Your good works are no good. Jesus bled for your sin; don’t reject Him.
This is the Good News of the Gospel of the Grace of God. God loved you and sent His precious Son to live a sinless life, die, and live again for you – the Just for the unjust, the Sinless for sinners, the God-Man for sinful man. God became a Man (Jesus Christ). God took on human flesh so that He could be crucified; so that He could experience what He had never experienced before – Death. The atoning work of Christ (sinless blood sacrifice) involved death, so that you could have life. Your punishment and God’s wrath was meted out on Christ, so that you could be saved from the wrath of God forever freely, without any works of our own. Jesus said, “Ye must be born again” (John 3:7) and, “Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.” (John 18:37)
The Innocent Lamb of God gave His life for the guilty. And the very moment you receive that Lamb as your Substitute; and exercise faith (heart-trust) in the Savior and His blood alone, the Lord Jesus Christ Himself will ‘Hit Save’ and your soul is safe forever by His grace, not by your works at all. You don’t have to do anything but believe on the One who has done it all for you. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved. Just like you would on a couch, stretch out your soul on the Lord Jesus Christ and rest totally in His doings and sufferings. Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. There’s no such thing as a free lunch. But, there is such a thing as free salvation, because Jesus paid for it. You must come to Christ as a sinner on His terms, not yours. Christ is the only cure for your sin problem. Only Christ’s precious blood can settle the feud between you and God. Your conscience can only be silenced by the blood of Christ. God be merciful to me a sinner through the blood of Christ.
