Song of Salvation--"He Is Risen"

April 4

Believers in Christ have an amazing opportunity to reach the lost, to give them the chance to receive the Lord of Creation into their hearts, to walk with Him, to commune with Him, to dwell with Him for time and for eternity. The Jesus we serve requires nothing of us. No payment is demanded, no stipulations are made. All this is His free gift to us—II Corinthians 9:15.

He asks nothing of us but that we receive His free gift. When we have gone to the altar and laid our sins at His feet, when we have received the cleansing His shed blood has supplied to us, when we are born again—when we are newly adopted into the family of our heavenly Father, there is one thing we can do.

It is not a weighty burden that He places upon us; He merely asks us to sing! If we have the joy of salvation, the best way we have of gaining the interest of those who do not believe is by our joy. The attention that is drawn to the one who is light of heart, joyful even when tried, is without equal through any other means!

Psalm 40:3 says, “He has put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see and fear, and put their trust in the Lord.” Those who knew us before our salvation—our tendency to fear, to distrust, to worry—will see the difference Jesus makes in us—and they will want to share in the transformation!