No Other

You’ve seen and heard the evidence. What is the choice, what is the decision that you’ve made in your heart?

April’s Awakening, Day 22

If we seek salvation, we are taught by the very name of Jesus that it is “of him” [1 Corinthians 1:30]. If we seek any other gifts of the Spirit, they will be found in his anointing. If we seek strength, it lies in his dominion; if purity, in his conception; if gentleness, it appears in his birth. For by his birth he was made like us in all respects [Hebrews 2:17] that he might learn to feel our pain [cf. Hebrews 5:2]. If we seek redemption, it lies in his passion; if acquittal, in his condemnation; if remission of the curse, in his cross [Galatians 3:13]; if satisfaction, in his sacrifice; if purification, in his blood; if reconciliation, in his descent into hell; if mortification of the flesh, in his tomb; if newness of life, in his resurrection; if immortality, in the same; if inheritance of the Heavenly Kingdom, in his entrance into heaven; if protection, if security, if abundant supply of all blessings, in his Kingdom; if untroubled expectation of judgment, in the power given to him to judge. In short, since rich store of every kind of good abounds in him, let us drink our fill from this fountain, and from no other.

 —John Calvin 

In the cross of Christ I see three things:

First, a description of the depth of man’s sin.

Second, the overwhelming love of God.

Third, the only way of salvation.

 —Billy Graham  

Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. John 14:6 NIV 

“Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it. Matthew 7:13–14 NIV

            Jesus. Everything in the Bible ultimately points to Him. Everything about Christianity ultimately is concerning Him. Jesus Himself declares He is the only way, the only truth, the only life. There is no other road you can travel nor gate by which you can enter into heaven and the Father’s presence. If there were, then why His suffering sacrifice in the first place?  Jesus isn’t just an option, He’s the only choice.