Spam and Salvation Without The Savior

An instant lottery winner? Alrighty! The lottery is so instant that I didn't even know that I had entered. Spam can be fun when you are in on the joke. However, fall for it for just a moment and click on one of those links... then doom and destruction follow as surely as the fool said, "I can save myself!" The world offers up a great many little salvations. Save up enough loot and surely the person is safe in life. Accumulate enough power and surely the wealth necessary to save this life will follow. Work hard and acquire enough skill and surely power will follow dragging the inevitable wealth with it. Big deep breath. Work hard, gather a lucky break, become famous, influence millions and surely the power and wealth will come to save this life and make a mark on eternity. None of that works for eternal life!

The wealthy, powerful, and famous of yesteryear are all gone to the grave. Those who died without the hope of Jesus are gone forever. How awful! What effort went into that life only to see the body dumped in a hole in the ground? How many gained everything but that lucky break then ended their one given life in despair? What became of that person when power crumbled under rebellion, accumulated wealth disappeared in a financial crises, or fame found that no one in the far country cared? We must have something better stored up for eternity, preferably kept safe where thieves cannot break in and steal or rust destroy.

Spam and salvation without the Savior are pretty much the same amount of useless. Jesus said that He alone was the way to the Father, who gives eternal life. All attempts to save myself will end in that hole in the ground. All accumulations of earthly treasure will end when you leave this life. But we have our hope in Christ Jesus, and that treasure cannot be stolen, disappear, or be lost. Eternal life is ours in Christ the Lord! We don't need to leave our name on things that will crumble and fall, for our name is held safe in the Lamb's Book of Life. Jesus said, "The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. (John 10:10) More abundant life, therein is our hope in Christ. Reject the thief; live in the Savior!

Have a great Saturday in Christ Jesus!
Bucky