SAVED!

They were sitting watching a tv program. A knock at the door. The wife gets up, answers the door and speaks for several minutes with someone. She comes back and sits quietly back down. The husband asks, "Who was it?" She responds, "A Christian!" He asks, "What did he want?" She replies, "He wanted to know if I was saved." The husband speaks, "Did you tell him you went to church regularly?" "He didn't ask me that! He asked me if I was saved." The husband looks over, "Did you tell him you are involved in our church and community programs around here?" "He didn't ask me that! He asked me if I was saved." The husband responds again, "I know you said that but did you tell him you were a school teacher, sang in the choir and visited the shut ins?" Frustrated she looks at her husband, "Are you listening to me? He didn't ask me any of those things! He asked me if I was saved....and I am not!"

It seems everyone wants to save us from something. Teachers want to save us from ignorance, doctors want to save us from diseases and sickness, financial advisers want to save us from poor financial decisions and manage our money and health instructors want to save us from being unhealthy. These things are important, no doubt, but these things cannot touch the deepest need each and everyone has within their being. Only Christ can do that.

Jesus came to this earth to bring life, the life of God into human lives. He taught the body is more than putting clothes on and life is more than eating and our possessions. Keeping house, working and enjoying pleasures of this earth are good, but that is not what we are created for. We have families and friends the Lord has given us, but the Lord does not want us to make that a substitute for our real need. He created us for more than all of these things.

The one solitary thing in our lives we need freedom from to enjoy the blessings of all the above is freedom from our sins! Only Christ can save you from your sins. The list of things we have done wrong down through the years. The things that bring shame when you recall them. The "little" wrongs that cross your mind in certain situations that show your guilt. The pain staking sinful acts that shamed you, your mate, your family or your friends hit hard at certain times.

Let Him save you from all these! Let Him save you from your lack of purpose and emptiness that sometimes hits you. Let Him save you from the mental distress caused by guilt and shame. Let Him save you from poor self esteem because you know how evil you are capable of being. Jesus Christ wants us saved!!! Think about the very word "SAVED" and what that means. Jesus Christ our Lord does not want us to settle for just things on this earth, even though He created it for us to enjoy. He wants to enrich our lives, to live on this earth a brief time grasping the depths of His love. He gives us Himself to make a difference. Have you been to Jesus for the cleansing power? Bask in His salvation! Why were you baptized into Christ? For the lack of salvation? To be miserable? Is that what Jesus wanted? We must humbly, willingly submit to His will and receive His salvation (it takes faith). Your union was with Him! Enjoy your salvation! Exclaim because of Him your sins have been wiped clean and that results in one thing: SAVED! Go ahead, don't be afraid to believe it. SAVED! Don't think little of it. SAVED! Let it wash over you like a warm soaking bath. SAVED! Your life is complete in Christ Jesus (Col. 2:9-10) and He guarantees it! Sing it! Believe it! Love it! Say it! SAVED!!!