Someone not knowing much about Christianity might assume being a ‘good person’ would qualify a person for heaven. However, salvation, according to scripture, is a free gift we can’t earn by our own goodness or good works. Trying to attain God’s free gift by working or paying for it, would be insulting, just as it would be very offensive for a wife to offer to pay for flowers from her romantic husband.

Here are my meditations on why the way of salvation in Christianity is so wonderful:

. As Christians, we have great security and confidence in our salvation. We don’t have to reach a certain level of goodness to be accepted by God. God counts as our righteousness the righteousness of Christ, who we trust in alone for our salvation.

. We can be certain God won’t change His mind given the great sacrifice and suffering of His only begotten Son on our behalf.

. Our way of salvation truly demonstrates God‘s unconditional love toward us.

. It is God who saves us, not we ourselves. This is very comforting and reassuring as we all have many faults.

.   We have God living in us through the Holy Spirit strengthening us to continue in faith to the end.

. We have a demonstration, strongly supported by many witnesses, of how the dead can be raised – namely, Jesus.

. Even a mass murderer can be forgiven by God. That’s great news if we feel the things we have done in our life are unforgivable.

May these wonderful meditations encourage you!