According to Promise [Updated, Annotated]: Of Salvation, Life, and Eternity
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According to Promise [Updated, Annotated]: Of Salvation, Life, and Eternity
Yet for those who believe happiness is found in otherworldly goods, namely, in union with God, contentment is never stagnation.
Indeed, “it is by grace you [are] saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast.”10 We are saved from our sins by a free gift of grace, something that only God can do in us and that we cannot manufacture ourselves. But that gift of grace involves the gift of a new heart. New desires.
... See moreHim, I say I am fulfilling it all by believing inHim and by subjecting myself to Him. That is the position with regard to the ceremonial law.
Martin Luther was asked what he contributed to his salvation, he replied, “Sin and resistance.” God Himself has done all that He requires of us. May we learn how to rest in Him, because He’s where the joy is!