DAY 47 – WAITING FOR PENTECOST

SAVED AND BEING SAVED

There is a phrase that I love which is part of my 38-year Presbyterian heritage (1970 – 2008).  The phrase is ‘Saved and being saved.’ Salvation starts with that beginning moment of ‘being saved’ – of accepting Jesus Christ as our personal Savior!  Salvation was made available by Jesus’ sacrifice – God himself, incarnate – coming to earth in the form of man to pay the price for original Sin and the egregious sins of the world for all of metered time; but the process does not culminate in a one-time decision. Every day we are ‘being saved.’  We have to make a choice to accept the gift each and every day. It isn’t imposed on us. And the gift has a price for us. It means that we die to self and become alive in God – that our life is no longer our own, but that we acknowledge our opportunity to have eternal life was bought with a price. In initially committing to giving up our independence and becoming submitted to the Lord’s will, we begin a journey that continues throughout this lifetime – a journey of becoming more and more like him as he peels away the layers of our ‘self’ and guides us deeper and deeper into his truth. There are specific days when I am poignantly aware of that cleansing work of God’s continual salvation, and I am grateful that it is so. 


I love miracles – but the miracle of a changed life is the greatest miracle of all. Saved and being saved!