A Simple Way

March 31

Anyone who has ever worked in a kitchen knows there can be a simple way or a complicated way to accomplish many culinary tasks. There are, in fact, programs on the Cooking Channel whose purpose is to assist their viewers in the goal of finding the easiest ways to obtain optimum flavor from foods prepared.

In this regard, the cooking show hosts are a bit like God. He, too, has made something easy that worldly religious systems have made complicated. The reality is, the most crucial decision any person can ever make in life, the only decision any person can make that impacts eternity, is a very simple one.

A person needn’t approach the Holy One by crawling over mountainous terrain with his forehead bowed to the ground as an eastern belief system requires. A person needn’t sacrifice all he owns to satisfy a demanding God. Nobody needs to strap on a bomb and blow himself up to please a holy god. Why would the Author of life require these acts of destruction?

So, if no great act of devotion or sacrifice is required, exactly what is? The Apostle Paul states it simply in Romans 10:9, “If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and if you believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.” The sacrifice for your salvation was accomplished at Calvary. You need only believe it.