DO YOU LOVE YOUR SALVATION?

READ PSALM 40 

IS YOUR LIFE PORTRAYING AN APPROPRIATE RESPONSE TO GOD’S WORK IN YOU?

Psalm 40:16-17

But may all who seek you

rejoice and be glad in you;

may those who love your salvation

say continually, “Great is the Lord!”

17 As for me, I am poor and needy,

but the Lord takes thought for me.

You are my help and my deliverer;

do not delay, O my God! 

Those who seek God will be glad, and will know the joy of being loved by God. They will realize the privilege of having received His mercy and grace.

Isaiah 55:6-7

“Seek the Lord while he may be found;

call upon him while he is near;

let the wicked forsake his way,

and the unrighteous man his thoughts;

let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him,

and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. 

Have you perhaps lost sight of the amazing gift that our salvation is? Have you been distracted by the difficulties of life and forgotten the immense privilege we have in knowing that God has forgiven us and continues to forgive us?

Do we return to God continually for forgiveness, forgetting our total unworthiness? Are we taking this most precious gift of redemption for granted?

God’s forgiveness is complete, eternal; it’s based only on the Lord’s infinite grace.

Our only appropriate reaction is to exclaim how great the Lord is. All else should pale in comparison to God’s grace to us. Every problem should become smaller, when we remember how great our salvation is!

Have you stopped to think about what it means to love your salvation?

Loving our salvation must include loving the God who planned it, and realizing that before the foundation of the world, before we were even born, God had chosen to provide for us the only means to escape eternal punishment.

Loving our salvation must also include loving our Savior Jesus Christ, who gave Himself to die on the cross so that we could experience eternal life.

Loving our salvation must also include remembering that the Holy Spirit draws us, teaches us, convicts us unto repentance, and seals us for eternity.

We could not have planned, provided, or preserved our salvation. It is the wonderful gift of God!

I realize that often the cares of the world obscure these wonderful truths. So often, my carnal desires relegate this immense privilege to second place.

I realize that I am using many superlatives, but even the most eloquent words could not describe the profundity of this gift.

Those who know and remember these truths will rejoice and exclaim the greatness of God.

How sad it is, when our attitudes and reactions minimize the beauty of our Savior and of our salvation.

We are poor, we are needy, as David says in the conclusion of this psalm, but God does not forget or forsake us. Lest we forget that we can never approach God with any demands or expectations, the psalmist reminds us that we are small.

The Apostle Paul, after he described the wonder of our salvation in Ephesians 1, prayed that God would seal it in our hearts.

Ephesians 1:15-21

For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints,  I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come. 

May our God open our eyes, and may our response be eternal gratitude and praise!