God's way of salvation

"God devised and planned a way of delivering us.

He made the way of salvation Himself.

Man did not ask for it,

man did not want it,

man did not know what he needed,

man was not consulted,

he has not put in a single suggestion.

Salvation is entirely of God from beginning to end.

Hence,'by grace you have been saved,' and nothing less.

What a display of the being and character of God!

And then the wonder that He has done to us what He has done,

that He should have made of us what He has made,

that we are already quickened,

that He has put a principle of spiritual life into us who were utterly, absolutely, hopelessly dead.

He has put new life into us, His own life; He has raised us up together with Christ, we are alive to Him,

we have the new interests and the new outlook,

we are seated in the heavenly places.

He has done all this to us already.

And, when we are finally there in glory,

when we finally leave this earth and go home to be with our Lord,

we shall be absolutely perfect, without spot or even a wrinkle or any such thing.

And He will have done this for us.

He will have made us ready even while we were still on this earth."

God's Way of Reconciliation

Ephesians 2

Martyn Lloyd Jones

Oh what high and lofty doctrine this is!.

My mind can scarcely take it in.

Lord, when things on this earth get hard and scary

help me to meditate on these things and take comfort.

It is all You my God,

You have done this for us.

May Your name be glorified and exalted!

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