MAY 20, 2013
A
Sure Salvation
Read: Romans 10:8-15
If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus
and believe in your heart that
God has raised Him from the dead, you will be
saved. —Romans 10:9
A
story is told that Queen Victoria of the UK was deeply moved during a church
service. Afterward, she asked her chaplain, “Can one be absolutely sure in this
life of eternal safety?” He did not have an answer. But an evangelist named
John
Townsend heard about the Queen’s question, and after much prayer he sent
her
a note: “With trembling hands, but heartfelt love, and because I know that
we
can be absolutely sure now of our eternal life in the Home that Jesus went
to
prepare, may I ask your Most Gracious Majesty to read the following passages
of scripture: John 3:16; Romans 10:9-10?”
Two
weeks later, the evangelist received this letter: “. . . I have
carefully and
prayerfully read the portions of scripture referred to. I believe
in the finished
work of Christ for me, and trust by God’s grace to meet you in
that Home of
which He said, ‘I go to prepare a place for you.’ —Victoria
Guelph”
Townsend
was confident that in this life we can have assurance of eternal safety
(v.9),
and he had a concern for others as well. Consider what John 3:16 and
Romans
10:9-10 mean for your eternal destiny. God desires to give you the
confidence
that your sin is forgiven and that after death you’ll be with Him forever.
Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine!
Oh, what a foretaste of glory divine!
Heir of salvation, purchase of God,
Born of His Spirit, washed in His blood. —Crosby
Lives rooted in God’s unchanging grace can never be uprooted.
Source: Our Daily Bread 2013
