More Revelations About Salvation

We want to assuage guilt, shame, hurt, and pain.

But where does it all come from?

It comes from a sense of condemnation.

"How could I do that?"

"How could I let them do that to me?"

"How come I did not see that coming?"

All of these questions are predicated on this false notion that we have everything figured out in our lives. We think that we should have all the issues figured out, and that nothing should take us by surprise.

But that means we are depending on ourselves, our self-effort, our flesh.

What does the Bible say about that?

"28And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: 29That no flesh should glory in his presence." (1 Corinthians 1:28-29)

This theme has emerged considerably in my life over the last few days. I looked at so many of the problems in the world, and I thought: "Well, if I don't do something, then nothing will happen. I better step up and do something right away!"

No!

God is on the job, and He is working behind the scenes.

It is not my job to right every wrong, whether done to me or to others.

He more than fulfills and restores whatever we have lost.

He takes care of us:

"They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away." (Psalm 69:4)

The pain, the condemnation of thinking that I had to make people pay for wronging me, or that I should be ashamed for not standing up for myself--all of that gets washed away at the Cross.

This revelation is very important. When we see that we have been forgiven for all our sins and failures, then the sins and failures of others cannot set us back, either!