Standard Contract

Good morning! This is a standard contract (Translation: Please don't take the time to read all of it, or we'll be here all day.) Sign your name at the bottom. (Wake up! I told you not to try reading it!) We have all sat through something like this in an office or conference room somewhere. The usual contract to buy stuff is so dull in its legal language we have to wonder how anyone wrote the thing without suffering a self-induced coma. Of course, the standard EULA (end user license agreement) on the software you buy is much worse. Opposite of all that is the transaction of salvation.

A person could render it down to a few words. The repentant sinner declares: "Lord, I believe." Jesus says, "Your sins are forgiven." Yet, the transaction is also very personal. Those who need more words can have them. Those who are content with less are saved in that way too. Some like to redo the transaction every week or so. Others know that once is all it takes. A baptism declares it publicly, but salvation is very private as well. We enter the surrender process for many different reasons. Some are sick in body, others simply sick of their sins. One may look up from the gutter of drugs, others because wealth and fame did not satisfy. Job loss brings one to Jesus, while that other person would dearly like to part with their employment situation. All of us may realize that this world likes to put a box on us, and then cave the sides in until we are crushed. In every case, the most important contract of our lives is also the simplest. We believe in Christ, and Jesus takes care of everything else to save us. And there isn't even a dotted line for a signature.

Praise God for the salvation found in Jesus!
Bucky