"Turn to Me and be saved!"

(Isaiah 45:22) "Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth!”

Are we in or out of gear with God? We will only ever find ourselves in one of two camps, it is either Bethel or it will be Babel! In fact there is no neutral ground! We will be wearing our Glorious Saviour’s “coat of arms” in humility or we will be strutting as the proud peacock with our tails fanned, just waiting for our fall. For all whom reject the simple message of the gospel will understand the Lake of Fire as they will experience it firsthand. The road before us is steep and turbulent with very tricky corners than needs skilful handling; in fact no man would ever be able to complete the journey in the wrong gear and have a happy ending. At times even first gear seems to be underpowered to get us through the severity of life. There seem to be one obstacle after another and the journey never seems to end. Until we find the right gear for life and then we are no longer phased with trivial nonsense, but be warned anything outside of the land of Bethel is perfidious and lays in wait to snare all those who wander through the land of Babel. At times wolves find their way into God’s glorious land with one intention, to lead true believers astray and persuade them to shift gears, but before long all those who wear God’s armour find their gear once again and they soon work out to differentiate between the wolves and the sheep. How I love the land of Bethel! It is a place of rest and any tired traveler can always find solace there! The educated and the simple have a right to enrol and enlist in God’s army but there is only one entrance to this beautiful land. However it is surrounded by high walls and skilful climbers may find away over the walls but they will be imposters and not enlisted men and eventually see their demise. "Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way, that man is a thief and a robber.” (John 10:1)

How I have learnt to love the simplicity of the Gospel; it is not a complicated message, there are no tricks to it or devious turns. We will either believe the message or reject it! It is that simple! All we need do is acknowledge our sin before a holy God, accept His provision in and through his beloved Son and fall to our knees as we seek out His forgiveness and we will then be saved, we will then find ourselves wearing His “coat of arms”.

This is what my beloved brother in Christ had to say on the subject just over a hundred years ago: “A good many years ago, when I was about fifteen or sixteen years of age, I wanted a Savior, and I heard the gospel preached by a poor man, who said in the name of Jesus—"Look unto me and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth." It was very plain English, and I understood it, and obeyed it and found rest.

I owe all my happiness since then to the same plain doctrine.

Now, suppose that I were to say, "I have read a great many books, and there are a great many people willing to hear me. I really could not preach such a commonplace gospel as I did at the first. I must put it in a sophisticated way, so that none but the elite can understand me." I should be—what should I be? I should be a fool, writ large.

I should be worse than that, I should be a traitor to my God; for if I was saved by a simple gospel, then I am bound to preach that same simple gospel till I die, so that others too may be saved by it. When I cease to preach salvation by faith in Jesus put me into a lunatic asylum, for you may be sure that my mind is gone.” (C.H.Spurgeon)

I leave you with this very simple choice; “For "everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved."” (Romans 10:13) 

Will you call out to Him and find life in Him or will you continue to strut with your tail fanned with the pride of life? I pray it is not the latter!

Signing off

Tyrone