Our Salvation is Our Unchanging Faithful God

One thing always makes me smile

when times are difficult 

and answers aren't coming;

when you sit with God

and share your heart

in the quiet morning.

God is never changing.

He is a core of solid perfection.

He is so holy, pure and righteous

that for eternity all mouths

cry out and worship Him

for who He is.

And it gets me thinking.

I am a person.

I'm not the "I AM WHO I AM"

but I am who I am.

There is no one like me

in my looks, my disposition,

the little things and the big ones.

As I sit outside this morning 

enjoying Proverbs chapter one,

I realize that my faithful,

solid-rock God

desires me to be like Him.

I am not like Him yet.

And yet,

He is working in me 

to will and do His good pleasure.

Our Beloved Salvation

is working in us 

as we work out this salvation

He has given us.

Salvation is God Himself. 

Salvation is letting God work in us

to do His will

and His good pleasure.

At one time we were alienated

and without God.

We could not please Him

at all on our own.

Whether we were very good 

and did really good things.

Whether we were bad 

and did really bad things.

There was no way to please God.

But Salvation came.

He came in the form of man.

He was in very nature God

and also fully man.

He humbled Himself 

and became obedient.

He became obedient to death,

even death on a cross.

He became the doorway,

our Salvation.

He became the bridge

between God and man.

There was no way to the Father

before.

No way at all.

We had no hope at all.

We lived in the desire 

of our own selves,

to please our own selves.

Salvation came.

God.  The unchanging God.

He became for us wisdom

and righteousness and holiness.

Through Jesus,

we have a Salvation so great.

It is so great that even angels

marvel

and long to look into these things.

What is man that God is mindful of us?

Man is Gods precious creation

and loved beyond words -

loved by action so breathtaking 

that nothing rivals the story

of history that Jesus came

and died on a cross

to take away the sin of the world.

Now we have favor 

and free access

and an introduction to all of heaven

and I was reminded this morning 

that I am a NEW CREATION.

God Himself has made us 

NEW CREATIONS in Christ Jesus.

Faithful, holy, pure, righteous,

solid, unchanging God

is doing in us and making us like Him.

By faith we believe this

in spite of what we may see

or feel or what others see or feel

about us.

You believe this.  By faith.

Continue in this faith.

Be rooted and grounded daily

in God.

You have Salvation.  God Himself.

He is the unchanging rock 

and that core of who God is,

is working IN YOU.

That is salvation.

Your Salvation is active,

alive.  The Word of God.

Don't give in to doubt

but get into the bible daily

and read and cry for all you hear in it.

And let God share His heart with you.