As Christians, we have been promised by our LORD Jesus Christ that we will encounter trials and tribulations because of our faith in Him. However, no matter what we have to face in our earthly lives, we can greet each new day with joyful hearts and peace of mind, knowing with surety that we are destined to spend eternity with Jesus in a heavenly home that our risen LORD is now preparing for us. By the grace of God, our salvation has been given as a priceless gift of God the Father through our profession of faith in His beloved Son. As a result, we should praise and thank God that nothing can ever separate us from the incomprehensible love that prompted Jesus to suffer and shed His blood on the cross to secure for us the confident hope and blessed assurance of abundant and everlasting life.
“Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed...work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.” (Philippians 2:12)
When we first trust in Christ, our heart becomes God’s temple inhabited by the Holy Spirit, Who seals our salvation until Jesus comes to redeem us and take us to be with Him forever. Until that glorious day, we’re called to exercise our faith by being obedient to God and to express our love for the LORD through acts of compassionate service that portray Christ to an unbelieving world. Products of God’s grace that is offered to all who trust in Jesus, the salvation and eternal security of believers are certainties. We cannot work for our salvation, but, once received, we work out our salvation by reverently yielding our hearts and allowing the transformative power of the Holy Spirit to cultivate within us Christlike qualities that are indisputable evidence that we are beneficiaries of God’s saving grace. Our salvation is a glorious work of God from the inside out!
“…not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior…” (Titus 3:5-6).
