Our salvation is greater than we can ever know. We can never plumb the depths nor soar to the heights of what God has prepared for us in Jesus Christ. The more we think about and meditate on our great salvation, and the more we ask for a greater measure of it, the more that great and inexhaustible gift will be ours. We must not neglect this great salvation (Heb. 2.3), which we do when we settle into spiritual complacency, insisting that the current state of our salvation is good enough. It’s never good enough.

A Christian Guidebook: What Does It Mean to Be Saved? (1)

He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins. Colossians 1.13, 14

Such a great salvation!
All who have received the gift of eternal life by the grace of God and through faith in Jesus Christ are saved. They have come to the salvation for which Jesus lived, died, and rose again, and unto the realization of which He now reigns in eternal glory.

Salvation comes to us and is worked out within us by the power of God. The apostle Paul explained that the power of God at work within us, the power of His indwelling Holy Spirit, is exceedingly abundantly greater than all we could ever ask or think (Eph. 3.20).

Greater for what?

For a clearer vision of Christ and more intimate communion with Him (Col. 3.1-3; 2 Cor. 3.12-18). More continuous and abundant yields of spiritual fruit (Gal. 5.22, 23). Greater consistency and effectiveness in the exercise of spiritual gifts for ministry (1 Cor. 12.7-11). More power to bear witness for Christ, to love God and our neighbors, and to advance His rule of righteousness, peace, and joy on earth as it is in heaven (Acts 1.8; Matt. 22.34-40; Rom. 14.17, 18).

In short, the power of God is at work within us for our salvation. But what does it mean to be saved?

Our salvation is greater than we can ever know. We can never plumb the depths nor soar to the heights of what God has prepared for us in Jesus Christ. The more we think about and meditate on our great salvation, and the more we ask for a greater measure of it, the more that great and inexhaustible gift will be ours.

We must not neglect this great salvation (Heb. 2.3), which we do when we settle into spiritual complacency, insisting that the current state of our salvation is good enough.

It’s never good enough. It can always be better. Blessings and benefits and manifestations of grace and truth, beauty and goodness, lovingkindness and righteous judgment await us day by day in our walk with the Lord—bounties of God’s Kingdom and Spirit that fill us with grace and peace, and can turn our world rightside-up for Jesus Christ.

So, as the writer of Hebrews exhorts us, “let us go on to perfection” (Heb. 6.1), and strive to lay firmer hold on the great salvation Jesus has won for us, and which He so earnestly desires us to know.

But to do this, we must have a clear understanding of how great our salvation is. And this begins with understanding what we have been saved from and what we have been saved unto.

Salvation from
The problem with not being saved is that we have nothing with which to compare our condition. We think we’re doing OK, sort of, and that everything’s going to work out soon enough.

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