Let’s talk about you and your salvation? What do I mean by salvation? Well, primarily it speaks of how you got saved, rescued from the slavery you were held in. A vital question along these lines is ‘Who is Jesus to you’?
Too often we fail to realise that Jesus is not just an open door leading to all of God’s riches. He is actually the blessing of God personified. No wonder we are called to look only to Jesus and no other. All starts and ends in him.
Again we fail to realise that Jesus didn’t come to give us a second chance at life again. What is the meaning of this you say? Have you ever watched a repeat game of football? The players are very much the same, with the same obstacles as before. Their weaknesses have not changed either. They try so hard perhaps the victory may just come around this time. Only difference is they have another opportunity to right the wrongs they made.
But thank God for His grace, God delivered us once and for all time. He has changed our destiny eternally. Our history has been completely re-written. No wonder our existence now is described in a form of newness which has not existed before. The totality of our being now bears the stamp of God. Our strengths are gone; the weaknesses are gone too. There is a new man now altogether whose strength and weakness can only be defined in God.
Permit me to re-emphasize the first point. Jesus – the way, the truth and the life. Fullness, wholeness, completeness lies in Him. He told Philip “A look at me should suffice you. Don’t ask me to show you who God is or where he is”. John 14:9 (Paraphrased). Christ fills you through and through; He is not pointing you to another. He is life itself; He is not pointing you to another. He is all and besides him there is none other. Take time to thank God again for all he has done in Christ Jesus. I tell you friends God has emptied his all in Christ. Now consider what it means when the bible says your life is now hid with Christ in God. Are you looking for another……?
– bolaji akanni
