I received a telephone call today from an office that said I owed them money. When I told the lady I had sent the check I sounded like the old “the check is in the mail” story. But I had and I could tell her the date and the check number. “Oh,” she said, “I’ll keep looking.” Upon disconnecting I thought this is an old routine that Satan loves to use on us. The price for our salvation was paid, but he tries to discourage us by telling us it wasn’t and if it was it isn’t valid for us. We are just too bad. Or because we grew up knowing the Gospel our indiscretions are worse than other people’s because we knew better. We need to claim the promises and inform him that the price for our sins was indeed paid. The check is not in the mail. It has been cashed.
When we get to thinking we are just too bad we need to remember Hebrews 7:25. “He is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him.” I enjoy rewording that to say “to the guttermost.” The meaning is the same. As uncomfortable as it might make us we have to adjust to the idea that Hitler could be our next door neighbor in heaven. I agree that it is most improbable, but we don’t know what his frame of mind was when he died. That is totally between him and God and God is full of grace and is in the business of saving people. It even seems distasteful to me to even think it. But perhaps there are people who think it distasteful that I should be saved.
Written by Roger Bothwell on October 12, 2010
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