Romans Road Part Three – A Way Out

Romans Road Part Three – A Way Out

If you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
Romans 10:9 New International Version (NIV)

At first glance, this verse makes me think that this might be a magical incantation from a group of superstitious middle easterners. At least, that is how some people look at it today. Some think that all you have to do is say Christian things like, “Jesus is my lord and savior” and some how they think they are miraculously saved from any afterlife harm. But this isn’t a children’s story and God knows the heart. He knows if He has a place with you or not. Your confession of Christ has to be from the heart, or its just lip service.

I think that believing in Christ is a supernatural opening of the mind. But at the same time it is a bending of the human will. Sort of like how a plant twists and turns to find more sunlight. And I imagine for a plant, it may think it has twisted into some unnatural shape merely for survival. But for the gardener, the plant is beautiful, strong and growing just as expected. I think that being a believer is sometimes embarrassing, sometimes amazing and we also experience moments full of hope. Being a believer is intriguing, for we live in this slowly deteriorating world while connected to an unchanging God that intends to bring us into a “forever world” that will never die. We are incessantly peeling back the layers of this world to view the real world. All the while, we are being lead by God’s Spirit. And I believe the Holy Spirit causes this new faith to take root in us through a series of wonderful and sometimes incredibly difficult circumstances. Our confession, our belief and our saved-condition come from God and are irrevocable.

The Cross-work of Jesus is the way out, if you want it…