By John Grimm
There is nothing more timeless than salvation. As Chuck pointed out yesterday, the psalms have a timelessness to them. The timelessness of salvation is what we all want to know. This desire is ingrained in our lives. We want to be secure in our living now and our hope for the future.
This salvation comes only from the Lord. We see verses 21-25 pointing out how God becomes our salvation.
I thank you that you have answered me and have become my salvation. The stone that the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone. This is the Lord's doing; it is marvelous in our eyes. This is the day that the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. Save us, we beseech you, O LORD! O LORD, we beseech you, give us success!
Jesus was rejected by those who were attempting to build Israel into a great nation. It is by knowing Jesus as the chief cornerstone of life that we have salvation. We can sing about Jesus delivering us from our sins and ourselves. Jesus will give us success over the sins we have committed and the nature of sin in us.
Salvation is not merely being delivered from sin. Salvation involves us discovering how we can be made new creatures (2 Corinthians 5:17ff.). Salvation is lived in our lives during this day and all the following days. We marvel because, like God’s mercies being new each day, he continues to renew us in the image of Christ. This is salvation, being made to bear the image of Christ fully and completely in our lives.
Lord God, thank you for Jesus Christ. We are looking for success in bearing the image of Christ in our lives. As we seek you, we can rejoice in how you are working in us so that we live like Jesus, even today. In the name of Jesus Christ, we ask that we may be found to be like him more each day. Amen.
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