When I was thirteen years old I was happy to have ‘saved’ another boy from drowning in the Mississippi river at our old swimming hole in Minneapolis near the Lake Street bridge. He nearly drowned me in the process. Did I really ‘save’ him? Doctors, nurses, firefighters, police and medics work to ‘save’ lives. These men and women do a great service to the members of their communities, but I don’t believe they ‘saved’ the people; they did prolong the physical lives of the people they rescued.
Of course I’m just playing with the word save, and I believe I will continue to say things like, ‘Those firefighters saved the lives of several people today, etc.” What I am getting at is that only Jesus Christ truly ‘saves’ people. No one can be saved for all eternity unless they come to Christ for salvation. (John 3:16; John 14:6; Acts 4:12; Rom. 10:9-10, 13).
Each day you spend apart from Christ you take a chance of spending eternity separated from God and all the love He has for you. You could die before today is over and Scripture tells us there is no second chance to get ‘saved’ once you pass from this life. Time is running out, won’t you receive him into your heart and become His follower today? God bless.
