Day 6: The Christian Worldview and the Way of Salvation

How do we attain salvation? What should we do? Should our good deeds outweigh our bad deeds so we can secure a place in heaven? Or does God grant you heaven if you run a charity organization for orphans?

In other forms of religion, the way of salvation is to earn God’s merit and favour by championing a system of good deeds. How can we ever match the standard of an infinitely good and perfect God? We can never earn His favour through our own works. We are fallen and basically evil and in need of a Saviour. So the second person of the Trinity, Jesus the Son of God, came down to earth to pay the price of our mistakes and meet God's standard for Justice. In Christianity, God initiates the process of Salvation. He offers it as a free gift to those who place their trust in the risen Jesus.

We serve a personal God, who wants to enter into a loving relationship with us. We all are in dire need of a savior, who could pay the price for our mistakes and save us from the eternal punishment that is due to us. That’s exactly what Jesus achieved on the cross. The cross is a beautiful display of God’s Love and Justice: He took upon Himself what’s due to us (punishment) satisfying the divine justice and gave us what is His (righteousness, eternal life). Despite our worst mistakes, God loves us, and chose us to be His. By placing our trust in Jesus, His righteousness is accredited (imputed) to us. Through Jesus, God sees imperfect humans as perfect and holy people. He blotted out all of our sins! This is awesome news!

The Bible is clear that we have been saved by faith alone, but that in no way downplays your role in this world to be a light for others in the dark. Indeed, a true Christian will display selfless acts, for example, to clothe the naked, feed the hungry and tend the wounded.

Application:

As we contemplate the way of salvation within the Christian worldview, let us rejoice in the truth that God's grace and love are freely given to us. Through Jesus, our sins are forgiven, and we are made righteous and holy.