Times of Refreshing

March 12

The promise of God is sure. That He wants to save our souls from sin is clearly reiterated over and over again through both the Old and the New Testaments. His love for man has not diminished, so His plan of salvation has not altered through the centuries since its inception.

The words written by Luke in Acts 3:19 still hold out great and matchless hope to mankind who is lost in the quagmire of his sin, “Repent, then, and turn to God so your sins may be wiped out, so the times of refreshing may come from the Lord.” Our God wants not only the eradication of our sin but the freedom its elimination gives to us.

As long as we are bound by sin, we cannot be refreshed by the freedom Jesus supplies to us. As long as we are held captive to the allurement of the things that hold us bound we cannot allow ourselves to be free of them. The Lord we serve wants us to have the key that unlocks our chains; He wants us to be eternally free.

In that freedom, we find the refreshment that comes when we are removed from the stifling dungeon of sin in which we’ve been held captive. In that freedom, we may breathe the air of salvation that fills our being with the power of the living Christ. That power enables us to go forth in victory in the power of salvation’s clean, pure air.