Salvation is of God

SALVATION IS OF GOD            Monday June 22, 2015

Text: Jonah 2:1 – 10               Memory verse: v 9

When you encounter God in a wrong way you will always have a sad story to tell (compare Matthew 21:44). The experience of Jonah when he tried to flee from God is what no other sensible person will want to pass through. For trying to flee from the call to go to Nineveh, God ordered a big fish to swallow Jonah (1:17). He prayed inside the belly of the fish acknowledging God’s power and supremacy over all His creatures and asked Him for deliverance and he will make sacrifice to Him.

Our deliverance from danger, preservation of life, recovery from sickness, and redemption of the soul from the power, guilt, and pollution of sin, is from God. He alone is the Saviour; He alone is the Deliverer; for all salvation is from the Lord. When we have proper understanding of this very fact, it will make us always to go to Him when the need arises.

Obviously, Jonah was not in a position to bargain with God again. Instead, he simply thanked God for preserving his life in the belly of the fish while asking for his deliverance. Our troubles should cause us to cling tightly to God, not attempt to bargain our way out of the pain. We can thank and praise God for what He has already done for us, and for His love and mercy and the ones He will still do. This will be a tonic to releasing the blessing of God upon our lives.

Food for Thought: “Salvation comes from God alone” – Latin Phrase

Prayer: My God and my Father, salvation belongs to you alone. Grant me that salvation of eternal life and deliverance over my problems and fears.