I Am Your Salvation

Take hold of shield and buckler,
And stand up for my help. Psalm 35:2

Ah yes, the interpretation view of one verse may go according to what the reader wants to see in it. Some would look at this and say that works are needed first to gain the Lord's help in salvation. And why, they may ask, would the Lord be averse to our participation in this work? 

It is critical that the work of salvation belong to the Lord. All of it. How could our Lord Jesus proclaim it finished on the cross if you or I these many years later still had a part to work out in it? What possible help could fallen man be in the work of salvation? Can you imagine 7 billion different partial solutions to salvation this morning? Aiiee! Neither can I. As Paul would say, "May it never be so!" Try not to imagine the horror as part of salvation was decided in each period of history. What part would the Coliseum, the guillotine, a world war, or a large corporation play in those diverse solutions? Which political party gets to decide for all of us after the majority votes? AAAUUGH!

It does not take much knowledge of us to see why we should not hold among ourselves any part of the solution to our salvation. Praise God it was in Christ alone! And David writing this psalm asked God for His help, and in the next verse writes to the Lord, "Say to my soul, 'I am your salvation.' " 

He is indeed our salvation!

Bucky