Able to Save (August 11)

They will throw their silver into the streets, and their gold will be an unclean thing.  Their silver and their gold will not be able to save them in the day of the Lord's wrath.  They will not satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs with it, for it has made them stumble into sin.
                                                Ezekiel 7:19 NIV

What do you hang on to that will save you on the day of the Lord's wrath?  Here we read in Ezekiel that silver and gold are useless for salvation on the day of the Lord's wrath.  If hope for your salvation on the day of the Lord's wrath is pegged to your social status, bank account, job, career, profession, hobbies, being a "good person," self esteem, or other such "feel good" items; then you will be "toast" on the day of the Lord's wrath.

The only hope that we have for salvation on the day of the Lord's wrath is the hope that we have in God's perfect plan, the gift of His Son, who died on the cross for our sin and who overcame death to make us acceptable to God.  Jesus removed us from eternal punishment for our sin as far as the east is from the west.

The Apostle Paul in his letter to the Romans provides a comment about Israel's unbelief in Chapter 9:30-33 NIV:

What then shall we say?  That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith:  but Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness, has not attained it.  Why not?  Because they pursued it not by faith but as if it were by works.  They stumbled over the "stumbling stone."  As it is written:  "See, I lay in Zion a stone that causes men to stumble, and a rock that makes them fall, and the one who trust in him will never be put to shame."

If we place our faith in Jesus and the work that Jesus did, then on that terrible day of the Lord's wrath, we will not be put to shame, but rather gathered up and saved by His grace.

What do you hang on to to save you on the day of the Lord's wrath?

Are you putting any stumbling stones in the path of another to that salvation?

Pray that the Spirit opens your eyes  and illuminates your heart to any stumbling stones that you may be carrying.

In Christ,

David P