Psalm 116:12-13 “What shall I return to the Lord for all his goodness to me? I
will lift up the cup of salvation and call on the name of the Lord.”
My friend Scott once heard a radio preacher ask: If everybody is going to heaven, what is the ticket that gets them in? Here is a remarkable question and the answer to the ticket issue. This quick little devotional I found, cuts to the chase, stating that to everyone born into the world, God has given multitudes of benefits.
“He gives to all life, and breath, and all things” - Acts 17:25.
Some receive more than others, but all receive many, so the question is what we
should do for the Lord in return. The answer is simply to receive His great
gift of eternal salvation. On one occasion the people of Capernaum asked Jesus:
“What shall we do, that we might work the
works of God?” His answer must be profoundly surprising to anyone who
believes that he can please God and earn salvation by doing good works. “This is the work of God,” said Jesus, “that
you believe on him whom he has sent” - John 6:28-29.
The truth is we can never pay for
our sins by good deeds. If one is ever to be saved from their sins and to
obtain salvation, it must be received solely by faith in the work of the Lord
Jesus Christ. “For the wages of sin is
death,” but while we were yet sinners,
Christ died for us so that the grace
of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded
unto many and whosoever shall call
upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Therefore, when a repentant
sinner calls in faith on the wonderful name of our gracious Lord, they drink of
the healing cup of salvation and receives everlasting life. Because Jesus drank
the bitter cup of God’s righteous judgment on our sins, we can drink deeply of
the “living water . . . springing up into everlasting life” - John 4:10-14,
and we can say with the psalmist: “My cup
runs over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life:
and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever” - Psalm 23:5-6.
Blessings in Christ.
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