Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread,"
Does your switch turn the lights On, or Off?
Perhaps you have thought that the switch in your house turns the electricity on. Wrong! Your electricity is turned on at the power station, and it is flooding your house through wires running all over, ready to run your lights, computer, and vacuum cleaner 24 hours a day. Your switch turns it off, otherwise your lights would be on all the time!
Likewise, your decision to follow Christ is not what turns His salvation on; He has already given you the gift of His salvation. That's what John 3:16 is saying; it is your unbelief that turns the gift off.
Our salvation is 100 percent due to God's initiative, not to our own in any way. But we let Him save us. By repentance, we stop turning the switch off! "The blessings of salvation are for every soul. Nothing but his own choice can prevent any man from becoming a partaker of the promise in Christ by the gospel" (The Desire of Ages, p. 403).
Copyright © 2014 by "Dial Daily Bread."
Does your switch turn the lights On, or Off?
Perhaps you have thought that the switch in your house turns the electricity on. Wrong! Your electricity is turned on at the power station, and it is flooding your house through wires running all over, ready to run your lights, computer, and vacuum cleaner 24 hours a day. Your switch turns it off, otherwise your lights would be on all the time!
Likewise, your decision to follow Christ is not what turns His salvation on; He has already given you the gift of His salvation. That's what John 3:16 is saying; it is your unbelief that turns the gift off.
Our salvation is 100 percent due to God's initiative, not to our own in any way. But we let Him save us. By repentance, we stop turning the switch off! "The blessings of salvation are for every soul. Nothing but his own choice can prevent any man from becoming a partaker of the promise in Christ by the gospel" (The Desire of Ages, p. 403).
--Robert J. Wieland
From the "Dial Daily Bread" Archive: September 10, 1999.Copyright © 2014 by "Dial Daily Bread."
