God Saves

Titus 3:4-7--"But when the goodness and loving kindnes of God our Savior appeared, He saved us, not by works done by us in righteousness, but according to His own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal in the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that being justified by His grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life."

Salvation and everything that it entails is, in so many ways, a mystery.  When I say that I do not, however, mean that it is entirely unknowable but, rather, that we only truly understand the great acts of salvation in part.  All that being said, though, there is one component about salvation that is so very clear throughout Scripture.  It is, in one sense, the most fundamental thing about salvation.

God saves.  And He saves apart fro anything within us that is worth saving or that could even possibly warrant salvation of its own accord.  This may be the irreducible Gospel: that Jesus saved us at the cross.

As we move swiftly through the Passion week unto Easter, let us try to keep this before us as we remember the great thing that was done for us upon that cross.