Today Is the Day of Salvation

# 150 - Today's Du-votional comes from: 1Sa 11:12-15, “ Then the people said to Samuel, "Who is he who said, 'Shall Saul reign over us?' Bring the men, that we may put them to death." 13 But Saul said, "Not a man shall be put to death this day, for today the LORD has accomplished salvation in Israel." 14 Then Samuel said to the people, "Come, let us go to Gilgal and renew the kingdom there." 15 So all the people went to Gilgal, and there they made Saul king before the LORD in Gilgal. There they made sacrifices of peace offerings before the LORD, and there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly. If you recall the time when Saul was selected as king over Israel, there were some rebels who despised him and refused to let him reign over them. This is very similar to an attitude of some people that Jesus spoke of in a parable in Luke 19. Lu 19:14 says, "But his citizens hated him, and sent a delegation after him, saying, 'We will not have this man to reign over us.'” At the end of this parable, which He used to illustrate the fact that one day He would return in judgment, He said, Lu 19:27 'But bring here those enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, and slay them before me.'" Judgment Day is coming! This incident with Saul is a picture of the reality that we live in today. Jesus has died and risen from the dead, ascended into heaven and one day will return in Judgment, but TODAY is the day of salvation. It is the time of grace, a time for the rebels to come to repentance and be saved before it is too late. Saul's grace extended to the rebels is the same grace that Jesus extends today. Are you a rebel? Are you resisting the reign of King Jesus in your life? I beg you to listen to these words from Heb 3:15-19, “Today, if you will hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion." 16 For who, having heard, rebelled? Indeed, was it not all who came out of Egypt, led by Moses? 17 Now with whom was He angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness? 18 And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not obey? 19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.” Surrender to the lordship of Christ and live!