A God Who Saves

"Our God is a God who saves;

from the Sovereign LORD comes

escape from death."

Psalm 68:20

Our God is a God who saves.

I have been staring at that sentence for the last 30 minutes, trying to comprehend this God who saves and what that means to me. I've come up with two things:

1. He saves me while I'm living - my sins are forgiven & he leads me on this journey of faith.
2. He saves me when I die - he has given me the promise of eternal life spent with him.

This morning, I read about the time when Jesus and his disciples where in a town called Nain and came across a funeral for a young man (see Luke 7:11-17). Jesus sees the dead man's mother; is moved with compassion and tells her not to cry (v. 13).

When Jesus looked at the grieving mother he didn't just glance at her; he really saw her. What he saw made his heart go out to her. The King James Version says, "he had compassion on her." v. 13

saw - (from the greek eido) - properly, to see (literally or figuratively); to know
compassion - (from the greek splagchnizomai) - to have the bowels yearn, be moved with compassion

He saw the obvious...tears, wailing, grief, the support of a large crowd.
He saw the more subtle...she was widowed, without other children, without a means of survival.
He saw the hidden...that which only the Father would know...her future.
And he was moved to save.

Jesus saved the son when he died.
Jesus saved the mother while she was living.

Our God is a God who saves.