Why was salvation even needed?

Good morning everyone,

Our theme for this month: “Salvation past, present, and future”

Our Bible verse for today: “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” Romans 3:23 (CSB)

Our thought for today: “Why was salvation even needed?”

So, why did we need to be saved anyway? Why couldn’t God simply bring us to heaven in the condition we were in? The answer is found in Romans 3:23, “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” We have all sinned. Many times. All of us. None of us is without sin and our sin causes us to fall short of God’s glorious standard.

God is pure and perfect and holy. Heaven is also pure and perfect and holy, and if God ever allowed an impure, imperfect, or unholy thing to enter heaven, heaven would no longer be pure and perfect and holy because it would contain something that isn’t. Since you and I have sinned, repeatedly, that makes us impure, imperfect, and unholy – and therefore unfit for heaven.

However, God loves each of us so much, and He wants us to be in heaven with Him so badly despite the sins we have committed, that He was determined to make a way for it to happen. In Matthew 18:14 Jesus said, “In the same way, it is not the will of the Father in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.” Likewise, in 1 Timothy 2:3-4 the Apostle Paul wrote, “This is good, and it pleases God our Savior, who wants everyone to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.”

Those are just two of the many verses which show us the heart of the Father with respect to salvation. We have all sinned and thereby separated ourselves from Him. But it is His desire that none should be lost. Instead, He wants everyone to understand how it is that their sin has separated them from Him, and how those sins can be forgiven and wiped away. (Please note that this does not mean everyone will be saved. Many will not be. But it does mean that God decreed that there would be an answer to the sin problem and He then created a pathway to heaven for whoever would choose that path.)

Sin is our problem. It separates us from our heavenly Father. Jesus is our answer to the sin problem. Tomorrow we will see how it is that Jesus solved the sin problem for us and opened the way for each of us to have our sins forgiven so that we can one day join the Father in His pure, perfect, and holy heaven.

God bless,
Pastor Jim

(If you like what you are reading in these daily devotionals, and if you would like more content from Oak Hill Baptist Church, join us on Sundays at 10:00, in-person if you are nearby or, if you are geographically distant or if you just can’t make it, online at www.YouTube.com/@oakhillbaptistcrossville

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