All about Him!

"Salvation is from the Lord." -- Jonah 2:9

"Salvation belongs to the Lord; Your blessing be upon your people!" --Psalm 3:8

"I, even I, am the Lord, and there is no saviour besides Me. It is I who have declared and saved and proclaimed, and there was no strange god among you; So you ae my witnesses, declares the Lord, and I am God. Even from eternity I am He, and there is none who can deliver out of my hand; I act and who can reverse it?"
--Isaiah 43:11-13

I have been struck lately about how much we, I, make salvation all about us. Salvation is all about Him! The only reason He saves anybody is for His gory. When a sinner, by the working of the Holy Spirit, repents and believes upon Jesus for salvation, the Father gets all the glory! The party in heaven over that sinner is before the throne of God worshipping Him, because the salvation of the sinner is all about God!

"...It is more blessed to give than to recieve" -- Acts 20:35

God the Father is more blessed and glorified in His giving us His Son, than we could ever attribute to Him ourselves by recieving His gift. That is the beauty of the Gospel!: We are dead and unable to attribute ANYTHING to His glorious work of Salvation apart from the Holy Spirit working throught us! So, the Father works through the Holy Spirit to cause His sheep to hear His voice (John 10:25-30) and to see His Son, and then He gives them eternal life. So we had nothing to do with it in and of ourselves! Salvation is from the Lord!

His Grace
Matt