Press into the Fullness of Salvation

March 24

It Is Not Finished

Real faith is not only getting beyond our past: it’s recognizing that faith is an ongoing process. None of us “have arrived.” At best, we can say we’re “on the way.”

A big mistake many make is the notion that at any given moment we’re going to be complete and thus relieved from the prospect of additional construction. That is not and will never be the case.

While I’m not everything I want to be, I’m not all the things I once was. Our lives are filled with pressure and stress. This is not necessarily bad. Stress and tension, properly balanced, actually give us strength.

Faith involves having something in the distance to motivate us and keep us moving, as the apostle Paul admonished in Philippians 3:14, “We should press on toward the goal of our high calling in Christ Jesus.”

Faith gives us a focus for our future, helps us move in the direction of our destiny, and gives us the capacity to continue working toward a worthy legacy.


–Mike Huckabee, from Living Beyond Your Lifetime


"Righteousness rescues those who are honest, but those who can't be trusted are trapped by their own greed," stated in Proverbs 11:6, gives us a very clear picture of what Governor Huckabee is saying here.

If we are honest with ourselves, we are aware that we must not only overcome the sin that besets us but we must live lives worthy of the salvation Christ has purchased for us.

Too often we come to a saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus without emerging from the sinful lifestyle that holiness requires us to leave. We subscribe to the notion of once saved always saved and allow ourselves to languish in the squalor from which His great sacrifice has redeemed us.

We may, subsequent to our receiving the Lord into our heart, give lip service to His authority over us; we may attend church regularly; we may support missionaries who travel to far-flung corners of the earth to share the gospel with those who have not heard; but until we make the Word of God the heart of who we are, we have missed the fullness of what Jesus died to give to us.

May we take Paul’s words seriously! May we indeed press forward into the fullness of our salvation! May we, as Governor Huckabee has said, “…work toward a worthy legacy” of faith in and devotion to our Savior.