HEART AND MIND SALVATION
Rom. 10:9-10 For if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by confessing with your mouth that you are saved. NLT
Salvation is rooted in both the heart and mind. Why both? It is one thing to believe the truthfulness of the Gospel and it's another thing to believe it to the point where the Gospel is allowed to change us. True salvation changes the heart. It changes the desires of the heart to sin to a desire not to sin. A change of heart changes what we think about things. Our thinking goes from an earthly focus to a godly focus. We become more interested in the things of God than we do the things of earth.
Salvation moves us from what we believe about God to a belief in God. We personalize the Gospel. Knowing what is true moves to knowing Truth. Lip service becomes heart service.
Anyone can claim to be a Christian, but not everyone who professes to be one is one. Words spoken must be backed up by a heart change. We must act on what we profess. We must let Jesus become Lord of our hearts.
Merely mouthing words will not save you. Such an approach cheapens what Christ did for us. He came to take away our sin, not condone it. He doesn't enter our hearts to co-habit with sin. He makes us right with God so we won't sin. He lives in us to help us overcome sin, and when we do fall, to help us deal with it so it won't linger in our hearts any longer than necessary.
Do you have any unconfessed sins in your heart today you need to get rid of? Give them to the Lord right now so you can live in victory and enjoy the peace that only He can give.
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