“Healthy people don’t need a doctor—sick people do. I have come to call not those who think they are righteous, but those who know they are sinners.” Matthew 9:12

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Sometimes we have to be reminded that we are all sinners.  Although, some much more than others.  When Our Omniscient God saw that all of His creation would fail and be lost, and revealed His plan of Salvation, it was truly an act of God.  For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard. Romans 3:23

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Even though Salvation is an act of God, it is also a personal experience.  A very individual, personal experience.  Because of God’s Love and Mercy for us as sinners, He gave His one and only Son, Jesus Christ, as an atoning sacrifice, to pay the penalty for our sins.  It is because of that sacrifice that we can obtain Salvation as a gift of God, not as a result of our good works.  And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world. 1John 2:2

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The reason that Jesus could be our Savior is because of His sinless life while here on earth, and His sacrificial death on the cross.  And when God raised Him from death, He defeated death for all who believe and put their faith and trust in Jesus Christ.  

Our personal salvation experience is applied when we are reborn and renewed by the Holy Spirit. It begins a “rest-of-your-life” process that begins to free us from the power of sin that is within the human heart.  Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. 2Corinthians 5:17   The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?  Jeremiah 17:9 

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These next few verses were written by the Apostle Paul.  His life was devoted to spreading the Gospel and yet he still seemed to struggle;   I don’t really understand myself, for I want to do what is right, but I don’t do it. Instead, I do what I hate. But if I know that what I am doing is wrong, this shows that I agree that the law is good. So I am not the one doing wrong; it is sin living in me that does it.

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And I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. I want to do what is right, but I can’t. I want to do what is good, but I don’t. I don’t want to do what is wrong, but I do it anyway. But if I do what I don’t want to do, I am not really the one doing wrong; it is sin living in me that does it.

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I have discovered this principle of life—that when I want to do what is right, I inevitably do what is wrong. I love God’s law with all my heart. But there is another power within me that is at war with my mind. He closes with the only solution,  Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin and death? Thank God! The answer is in Jesus Christ our Lord.  Romans 7;15:25 

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So salvation is not only a future Hope but also a present gift and help in this crazy world we live in.