When Mary went to visit Elizabeth, she referred to God as her Savior. This one verse debunks the idea that Mary was sinless. She was like the rest of us needing God in the way he would save. No matter how good we are, like Mary, who was definitely a good person, we still need to be saved. For anyone who would accept Christ into their life, they must come to the place where they admit that need before they can receive the solution.
Think of it! The very thoughts, intent, expressed words of God inhabited a human body. Today, we not only celebrate his birth but how fantastic it was that Jesus felt emotions, physical pain, and knew the same temptations as every other human on earth. His divine royalty was put aside. The One that always was and will ever be allowed himself to know the finality of death.
His prerogatives, personal goals, and vocational ambition was not the center of his consideration. He had your and my situation only in his mind. Jesus was born to step into our place. It was our requirements and, yet, what we could not satisfy. We had an obligation to answer for our corporal rebellion. Still, we were unable to meet the debt that was ours which resulted from humanity’s crime against God.
This can be a difficulty especially for those who live a moral, ethical, and upright life that they need to ask forgiveness of God for simply who and what they are. They may be charming. They may be dutiful to their obligations. They may be understanding and giving. They may be ideal in other people’s eyes. However, regardless of any purity that may be worthy of bragging, the best of us still need a Savior. The question is: if we are to be saved by Jesus, from what are we being saved?
He saves us from ourselves. Sometimes decisions are difficult to make. Occasionally, those decisions were bad decisions which means the person must endure the consequences. The attitudes that we display, the direction we take, even to what we exclude from our lives, all of these require us to be saved from them.
He saves us from the corruption of our souls. Whatever we do grows out of what we are. Since our souls are damaged by original sin, there is no getting away from the fact that none of us are perfect. The very depths of what we are is a faulty foundation that can only be corrected by God himself. The mystical touch of his Holy Spirit is a healing power for nature that defines us. We may be living as a natural man who is upright but still concerned only about life in this natural world. We may be living as a carnal man who despite what people might think of him could be filled with lust and greed. There is no healing of what we are outside of the saving power of Jesus.
He saves us from the destiny that is automatically ours. One of the first words that a baby says when he begins to talk is, “No!” I have never heard the word, “yes” come from the mouth of a baby learning to talk. There is a rebellious attitude guilty from the complexities of each human. We are a rejecting creature of whatever does not please us. We are resistant to whatever we don’t want imposed upon us. As a result, we put ourselves in a position that leads us to an eternity that is rebellious against God.
He saves us from the negative effects we can have on others. Granted, there will always be disagreements. I’m not talking about normal or routine differences of opinion. I am talking about how we can adversely affect other lives causing them to take a misdirection. Jesus transforms us into his representative for the world which means the intent is for us to have a positive effect and not a negative effect on others. This includes our relationship with God as Father versus Judge. The salvation from Jesus is all-inclusive and powerful! He did all this because he loves us!
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