You’re not “doing” anything; you’re simply calling out to God, trusting him to do it for you. That’s salvation. With your whole being you embrace God setting things right, and then you say it, right out loud: “God has set everything right between him and me!”
“Everyone who calls, ‘Help, God!’ gets help.”
Read from the message again this morning. It seems to be clearer for my pea-brain.
I'm not sure I've ever read it spelled out this clearly before. Its not you. Its him. All you have to do is ask for his help. But, the kicker here is for you to say it out loud. I wonder why that is? God knows what we are thinking. Maybe its a clearer pronouncement of our intention. To say it out loud makes it more real to us (as opposed to real to him)
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I like the Message version too, it works better for my half of the pea brain as well. I wonder if the combination of confess with the mouth believe in the heart is the system God put in place to ensure His word does spread? In the heart is for us to be saved, with the mouth is to spread the news so others hear and can explore for themselves have their own hearts impacted?
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