Psalm 14
What floors me is that God took the initiative to come to us. It sure wasn’t because we were out looking for Him! It sure wasn’t because we were so good God looked down from heaven and was impressed with our righteousness. The glorious grace of God is that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us! What a demonstration of divine love!
The apostle Paul takes part of this psalm and uses it in Romans 3 to say that every single person is under sin, that we will all be held accountable to God, and that we are not even close to being able to measure up to His perfect standard. It sure doesn’t take long for any of us to look in the mirror and see how true this is! We know that we have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. We’ve all been fools in this way.
It’s the fool, however, who keeps refusing to receive the one and only remedy for sin: Jesus Christ. It’s the fool who continues to reject the one source of salvation, the one hope for rescue from sin and death and hell. It’s the fool who fails to call upon the name of the Lord and be saved.
But God has indeed brought forth salvation out of Zion. With a love undeserved and unfathomable He sent His Son to save us. He gave us the gift of everlasting life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Because of the cross we’re forgiven for our foolish sin. Because of the empty tomb we’re raised up with Him in glory. Through faith in Christ even fools can be saved.
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