Romans 10:10. (NIV) With your heart you believe and are made
right with God. With your mouth you say Jesus is Lord. And so you are saved.
Paul has made clear previously that slavishly following
religious rituals is not the way to an empowering relationship with God. What
is required is total commitment to doing God’s will not your own will or that
of the religious establishment. This requires totally embracing Christ’s
journey. Our rebirth in Baptism, our trials, tribulations and joy in God’s
Grace, our death and resurrection all the time under God’s direction not our own.
To live under God’s direction means opening your heart’s
doors to God’s word. For me this means studying scripture and digesting it.
Praying about it. Silence. Listening for God’s voice.
Claiming the word by speaking it out loud.
For me, being saved in this setting means giving yourself
up totally to God’s direction in your daily life. Can I do this on my own
energy?
Absolutely not! Only with the help of the Holy Spirit,
Jesus’s gift to us, is it possible. With your mouth you say Jesus is Lord (out loud)
and so you are saved and empowered!
—Dick
Rogers
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