Due to decades of repetition, I sense that the spectacularicities of the Word have become yawners. Yeah, we've heard that before.
When granddaughter Emma was five, I took her through the booths at the Tulsa Workshop to do a bit of shopping. We came to stacks of coloring books; maybe ten variations in all. Don't want that one. Don't want that one. Nope, don't want that one. Hmmm, these are all about God. I already know all about God, she said with stern frustration.
Thus, to the word salvation. We don't know all about it. Furthermore, as we learn or are reminded of what we already know, sheer elation sharpens the edge to our fascinating life in Jesus. Salvation is so huge I believe it to be immeasurable and ungraspable.
Michael Horton said it this way, As important as it is that Christ bore the penalty of our sins on the cross, it is just as important that he triumphed over the powers of evil and recapitulated the history of fallen humanity and Israel. Adam was commanded to obey God's law and failed, Israel was commanded to obey God's law and failed, but Christ came into this world and completed a life of perfect obedience to the law of his Father. Christ the righteous One was indeed the Last Adam, the True Israel....We have not only been forgiven on the basis of Christ's curse-bearing death, but justified on the basis of his probation-fulfilling life.
And then Tullian Tchividjian responds with a harmonic, He lived the life we couldn't live and died the death we should have died. And this happens all of grace.
Salvation is not a grumpy conservation word; nor is it a dull word which lost its luster. It is a glory word which blasts away at the numbing crud which cakes our eardrums. We hear once again, in Jesus we really are right now SAVED!
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