The basics. The essentials.

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Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven by which we must be saved. Acts 4:12

Only JESUS CHRIST is powerful enough to save us from the deathly wages of our sins and from the daily messes and mess-ups that hound our lives. ONLY Jesus has that redemptive power to SAVE us and make us whole. ..Make our lives and our minds whole! Rom 10:9 says if you confess + believe = You WILL be SAVED!  I'm not sure about where you stand, but this is where I stand: I stand with the weight of realities, in the midst of struggles with those sins that so easily gets in my life, with heartaches and fears.. But I'm standing on this promise today, standing with this saving knowledge, that Jesus still saves! He STILL is in the business of rescuing us from the middle of  raging storms, from anxieties and fears, from heartache and hidden wounds. Jesus still saves. And it is my belief that as much as I needed to be saved from sin and come to know Him initially, I need to be saved daily. From my raging fears. From the wounds that words have inflicted. From sin and temptations.

There is one thing I know from my experience: we have this innate  propensity to fail. Let me just tell you I have failed before (more than a few times...) and I am confident that I will fail again.  And in all the times before I've failed and fell flat on my face and cried out, Jesus has never failed to run to my rescue. As sure as I am that I will fail and fall, I am confident that my Savior will run and rescue!  So, I remain certain in this one sure thing, that at our cry, our Savior, our POWERFUL and more than ABLE Savior WILL save. Rom 10:9. Confess + Believe = You WILL be SAVED!


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