What Does Salvation Mean To You?

Just this morning I read an article that dealt with a survey taken regarding what attracts people to religion. A wide margin of people indicated that a positive message of rewards was far more appealing than "hell-fire and brimstone".

It's no wonder! The unregenerate mind doesn't want to think about the eternal consequences of personal sin. We like to think of ourselves as "good enough." And so we endeavor to find standards of judgment by which we stack up pretty good.

Please consider this: Salvation is all about rescue! You and I, everyone child of Adam's race, have personally chosen to pursue paths contrary to the ways of God. As a result, we are headed toward the destination that those paths inevitably arrive at! That destination is hell! No, we don't like the word nor the connotations associated with it, but that doesn't change the reality!

The only way to escape the dangers of the contrary path is to recognize and acknowledge that we are sinners, deserving of hell but desiring grace. Then, there must be a repentance of all contrary ways, and an embracing of Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior!

For the one who has realized their lostness, and the truth of God's love in providing a way out, future choices are made in light of glorious truth of God's love which, when received, creates a corresponding love in our hearts for Him!

People may want to hear of rewards, but the Lord is not attempting to bribe us! He is endeavoring to warn us to flee from the wrath to come! Perhaps not a popular message, but the only message that can lead a lost soul from darkness to light.

God bless.