Part 4: A Forgotten Need (familiarity series)

The fourth battle I wish to fight: Our belittlement and forgetting of our need for Christ. If you ask most any Bible-believing Christian whether or not they need Christ for salvation, your answer would most likely be yes, we most definitely need Christ to receive salvation, save for the few who  believe good works are the way to get to heaven (Ephesians 2:9). Even though we are completely dependent on God’s grace, we forget that sometimes. We forget that the only way to receive salvation is choosing to accept the grace of God in his gift of salvation. Now, I say this with full knowledge that most of you reading this have probably accepted God’s grace in the form of his gift of salvation, however, I think we lose the picture of how extraordinary it is! We lose the newness, and in the loss of the newness we lose the extraordinary picture of God’s abundant love. We lose the huge, crazy reality of his love. We lose the idea that the King of Kings, The Lord of Lords, The Great I AM sent his one and only begotten son, Holy, without spot, blemish, and sin, a flowing river of purity flowing on eternally, we forget that God sent his one and only son to die for good-for-nothing sinners that flood this earth. Good gracious, why?! Because of God’s extraordinary love, a love we forget about, a concept that is blurred in the lines of familiarity, a concept we take for granted every single day. Imagine your child sacrificing their life to save that of another; imagine the emotional trauma of that alone. Now, try to imagine the trauma of that individual not appreciating the sacrifice of your child. How would that make you feel?