Continuing with a series on Chile miners’ saga, there are some more truths to be “mined”….here goes…
Redemption, One at a time, The only way…
Mind you, Chile miners, safe in their rescue capsules, emerged “one at a time” from their “grave that held them in its grip for 69 days”. Hey, Salvation from our “grave of sin” is also given on a “one on one basis”. No one can get a passport to heaven on the basis of the noble deeds of his pious parents or grandparents. Riding piggy back on the back of someone else wouldn’t do, wouldn’t do at all, when it comes to salvation! everyone has to seek His salvation personally: “Jesus answered and said to him, ‘Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.'” (John 3:3 NKJV)
And just as the missile-shaped capsule painted in the colors of the Chilean National flag was the only “life-saving device” for the miners, the cross, “painted” with the blood of Christ, is the only way of salvation for us: “Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.'” (John 14:6 NKJV) “And I, brethren, if I still preach circumcision, why do I still suffer persecution? Then the offense of the cross has ceased.” (Galatians 5:11 NKJV)!
Quite striking, this similarity, isn’t it? Now the Chilean miners didn’t have any reservations nor did they argue about the life-saving “capsule” being lowered into the pit for their deliverance. Simply put, there were no choices offered to them. There was only one way and they jumped at it! Friend, have you taken your “leap of faith” (“But what does it say? ‘The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart’ (that is, the word of faith which we preach): that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” Romans 10:8-10 NKJV), landing into the safe arms of the Savior, as it were: “But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” (John 1:12-13 NKJV)
Let me affirm, there is no other way on!
“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek.” (Romans 1:16 NKJV)!
Please join us next Tuesday for “Mining Some Truths, Part 3”.
Suresh Manoharan
http://www.jandsmministries.com
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