Powerless to Receive

Salvation is always the receiving of life. Nothing more. Nothing less.

To be convicted of sin, to turn the other way so as to repent, to promise to change. That determination, it is not salvation. To believe the truth, to proclaim grace and mercy and life, to know the right way. That believing, it is still not salvation. And to stay there is not life. You know it, if you’ve been there, if you’ve tried that, if you’re there right now. You know it, there is no life there.

Apart from receiving.

For when the heart despairs from the always giving, when the mind tires of the endless searching and explaining, when the soul dries up from the forever draining but never filling. Then you know it. That life is unattainable apart from receiving something more, someOne more.

Yes, life is given for you, and meant to be received by you. Period.

And only Christ is life and light to all men. Only Christ, Who came to seek and to save you (Luke 19:10), Who was acquainted with your grief (Isaiah 53:3), Who was pierced, crushed, chastised, and wounded, for you (Isaiah 53:5). Only He is life, when received by you. Only then.

Yes. Christ has already done the saving, and Christ will do the changing. He knows you are powerless to save and powerless to change, yourself. He made you that way, He made you powerless on purpose, so you could receive Him. So that you could receive life. That’s it!

Salvation is receiving life, Christ Jesus, the One Who is Life, always!!

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“...we are powerless .. We do not know what to do, but our eyes are on you... Thus says the LORD to you, 'Do not be afraid and do not be dismayed at this great horde, for the battle is not yours but God's. ...You will not need to fight in this battle. Stand firm, hold your position, and see the salvation of the LORD on your behalf...' Do not be afraid and do not be dismayed... the LORD will be with you." - 2 Chronicles 20:12, 15, 17

“...that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God...” - Acts 26:18

“But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you...” - Acts 1:8