Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Buzzwords: Saved

Boy, here is a doozy (SP?). This word is a little bit like the word "Blog". If you're in-the-know you understand, if you aren't it just sounds weird. Actually, if you look it up in Webster's Dictionary the first definition is "to deliver from sin". Have you ever noticed how a word can be used so often that it begins to lose its meaning and significance? It's not a problem with the word, it's a problem with the communicator and sometimes the listener. If you don't believe me, just say the word watermelon about 43 times and see if it makes any sense when you are done.

If you think about the word "saved" in general, another word comes to mind... rescued. The word "rescue" conjures up significant and emotional images in my mind. I picture a firefighter rushing into a burning building, a soldier climbing out of bunker as mortars explode around him, Mel Gibson raising his longsword as his hair blows in the wind. What do you think when you hear the word rescue? Do you picture a hero, do you picture deliverance, do you picture bravery, do you picture hope?

Jesus Christ came to save us, He came to rescue us, He is a hero. When you picture the crucifixion, listen for epic, powerful, big, heroic music in the background. When we should burn in the building, be slaughtered by the enemy, lose all hope... Jesus stepped in, threw us over our shoulder and carried us out. He has rescued us from ourselves, He has saved us.

Ephesians 2:4-5 (NLT) But God is so rich in mercy, and he loved us so much, that even though we were dead because of our sins, he gave us life when he raised Christ from the dead. (It is only by God’s grace that you have been saved!)

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