Neither is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved.
Acts 4:12
Salvation? Salvation from what?
“Yeah, I get it, Mark. I know I need to believe in Jesus and call on His Name is order to be saved from eternal damnation in hell. I’ve done that. I got that out of the way. I’ve accepted Jesus as my personal Savior.”
Asking Jesus into our lives so we can spend eternity in Heaven is just the beginning of our salvation. For instance, Jesus wants to save me from being a bad husband. He wants to show me more and more about how to love Annie better by the way I treat her and by the way I live every day with her. He wants to set me free from all the awful PTSD symptoms and accompanying lies I’ve believed about myself the devil used to cause me to be depressed, to be ineffective in my Christian witness, and to want to end life. Yeah, I was not doing well and Jesus wanted to show me how to turn my life around.
I don’t know exactly what you need to have Jesus save you from, but I know Him and I know – beyond a shadow of doubt – He wants to set us free in so many areas we either don’t recognize or that we refuse to let Him do His work in.
Let Jesus show you how to love your spouse better. Let Him show you how to be a better employee, how to overcome fear, disappointment, complaining, shame, pride – you name it. Let Him show you how to live above your circumstances like He showed the Apostle Paul to do. Let Jesus give you new life. He is The Gospel. He is the Good News. Let Him bring His wonderful, liberating, life-changing Life into you.
Don’t know how to get started with letting Jesus change you, with letting His great salvation begin to do its work in you? Well, one place you can start is by reading through all the links at ChoosingJesusEveryDay.com. Memorize and apply the verses God gave Ann and me that are displayed on the “Verses God Gave Us” tab on that site. Ask Jesus to do a mighty work in your life. He’ll do it. How do I know He will. Because He’s doing it in Ann and me.
I can tell you right now, the only reason for not letting Jesus change me was due to my own stubborn will and religious pride. Yes, the PTSD has been a very rough road, but I still needed to choose Jesus in order to have any kind of a chance to have His wonderful Life replace the one I was living.
Choose Jesus. Choose Life. You’ll never be the same.
We love you all.
God bless,
Mark
Note: While we may not agree with everything a particular church or Christian group teaches or believes, there are times when we can be blessed by something outside the realm of our current understanding of God.