Today's meditation is based on Romans 10 from the Passion Translation
The passionate desire of my heart and constant prayer to God is for others to experience salvation. Although they may be deeply devoted to God, many ignore the righteousness God gives. I used to want to be acceptable to God because of my own works. I refused to submit to God’s faith-righteousness. But Christ is the end of the law. And because of him, God has transferred his perfect righteousness to all who believe.
Under the l...
Today's meditation is based on Romans 10 from the Passion Translation
The passionate desire of my heart and constant prayer to God is for others to experience salvation. Although they may be deeply devoted to God, many ignore the righteousness God gives. I used to want to be acceptable to God because of my own works. I refused to submit to God’s faith-righteousness. But Christ is the end of the law. And because of him, God has transferred his perfect righteousness to all who believe.
Under the law of Moses, every part of the law had to be obeyed in order to be declared right with God. But now I have received the faith-righteousness that speaks an entirely different message. I don't need to climb into the heavens to find the Messiah and bring him down, or descend into the underworld to bring him up from the dead. Because God’s living message is very close to me, as close as my own heart beating in my chest and as near as the tongue in my mouth.
God’s “living message” is the revelation of faith for salvation, which is the message I now preach. I have publicly declared with my mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in my heart that God raised him from the dead, and I have experienced salvation. My heart received the gift of the righteousness of God — and my mouth confessed it, resulting in salvation. Because I believe in him, I will never be disappointed.
Faith eliminates the distinction between Jew and non-Jew. God is the same Lord for all people. And he has enough treasures to lavish generously upon all who call on him. I called on the Lord’s name and experience new life.
But how can people call on him for help if they’ve not yet believed? And how can they believe in one they’ve not yet heard of? And how can they hear the message of life if there is no one there to proclaim it? And how can the message be proclaimed if messengers have yet to be sent?
That's who I have become. The messenger of the Good News and I am welcomed when I arrive proclaiming the joyful news of peace and of good things to come!
Faith was birthed in my heart when I responded to God’s anointed utterance of the Anointed One. The voice has been heard throughout the world, and its message has gone to the ends of the earth!
When I wasn't even seeking him, he manifested himself before me -- before I even knew enough to ask to know him. With love, he held out his hands day after day, offering himself to me.
God’s message was not just for Israel, his chosen people, but for others as well. It was meant for me.
Until next time, be blessed and be a blessing.
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