At the core of your being, let me ask you, what do you believe? Do you believe in the power of the Good News of Jesus to save you from your sin? Or is that a difficult, even impossible thing for you to believe? What … do you … believe?

If all that feels a tad “in your face”, I get it. And yet, I make no apology for it. Because sometimes I feel the need to be direct in cutting through the clutter, in slicing through the opaque veil of worldly self-interest that casts itself so readily over the human heart. Sometimes we need to be jolted out of our complacency, shocked into action.

Life puddles along. The concerns of life fill our minds. And we forget, all too easily, that there’s a powerful truth set before each one of us by God Himself – that He sent Jesus to save us from our sin; that by faith in Him and Him alone, we can be saved; that if we reject the good news, the gospel of Jesus Christ, we will spend eternity separated from God in that place we call hell.

For that reason, like the Apostle Paul back in the 1^st Century AD …

Romans 1:16-17 … I am not ashamed of the gospel; it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who has faith, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed through faith for faith; as it is written, “The one who is righteous will live by faith.” (NRSV)

Your faith in Christ alone is what can save you, what will save you. With all my heart, I urge you today to believe. Believe in Jesus.

That’s God’s Word. Fresh … for you … today.