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
sin 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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