Maybe you know this, maybe you don't. Or maybe you know it, but don't want to accept it. I know from the Bible that everyone needs salvation, and I believe from observation that everyone knows it. How can I say this? Because I see people every day looking for salvation. Sadly, too many are looking in all the wrong places.
The recent political upheaval is a good example. The way some people talk about the two political candidates, you'd think one was Christ incarnate and the other the Anti-Christ. The identities of each change depending on who you talk to.
Now I don't think either candidate is the Anti-Christ. I can say with absolute confidence, however, that neither is the Christ. There has only been one Christ, and He came over 2,000 years ago. When He returns, there will be no question of who He is.
The point is, people grab on to something--sometimes anything--to give them security. They know they need saving, even if they don't know what they need saved from. There is an insecurity within all of us causing a craving, a desire, a need for salvation. I call it the God-Sized Hole.
We all have it.
This God-Sized Hole is that desire within us to be safe and secure, to know without doubt that whatever happens, we are safe. It is the desire to be saved.
Since the beginning, people have tried to stuff this God-Sized Hole with everything but God. Money, power, sex, drugs--you name it. If those don't work, they try to shove another person in there to plug the dam. Father, mother, preacher, politician, children, spouse, or themselves. The problem is, none of them fit. Nothing will plug that hole but God. It's simply too big.
When that hole remains unfilled, the need to be saved remains. To find security, people run here and there, grabbing this and hoarding that, shoving more and more stuff into the seemingly bottomless pit deep in their gut. All to no avail. That hole isn't going anywhere, and it's not going to get filled up until you put the perfectly round peg in the perfectly round hole.
Only God can fill that hole, and save you.
Jesus Christ said, "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me." What He is talking about is the hole we all have. Only He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Only He is salvation. Only He can grant access to eternity with the Father. That is what it means to be saved. That is the hole we all have deep within us. That's what we desperately want to fill.
Only God, through Jesus Christ, can do that.
Do you want saved? Do you want to be eternally safe and secure? Do you want that nagging, gnawing craving that makes you always want more and more to go away? Of course you do. We all do.
The only way to get there is through The Way. Jesus.
Here's what to do.
Talk to God. Yes, it really is that simple. Talk to God. Tell Him you want Him to fill that emptiness inside you. Tell Him you know that you need saved, that there are things in your life you need saved from. Confess or admit that Jesus is the only way for this to happen.
If you do this, and mean it. . . If you really believe that you are lost without Him, and you ask Him to save you, He will. It doesn't matter what you've done, who you are, or how many times you've rejected Him. All you have to do is accept Him now. Today.
Do you feel that hole inside you even now? Then fill it once and for all.
You need saved, and there's only One who can do it.
His name is Jesus.
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