Only One Way

470 - Today's Prime Time Devo comes from: 2Sa 7:23,24 "And who is like Your people, like Israel, the one nation on the earth whom God went to redeem for Himself as a people, to make for Himself a name-and to do for Yourself great and awesome deeds for Your land-before Your people whom You redeemed for Yourself from Egypt, the nations, and their gods? 24 "For You have made Your people Israel Your very own people forever; and You, LORD, have become their God. (2 Sam 7:23,24) God chose just one nation out of all the nations. He chose this nation (Israel) and then redeemed it. In Zodhiates Hebrew Greek Study Bible, this redemption is described as an intervening action which effects a release from an undesirable condition. David was talking about God's miraculous deliverance of His chosen people from Pharaoh. Then we read why he did it. He did this to make a name for Himself in the world as He continued to go before His chosen people with many miraculous deeds. This recounting of God's interaction with His chosen people is a beautiful picture of God's interaction with the new Israel, the church of Jesus Christ. First of all, we read that God chose just one nation. Understand what this is a picture of. Of all the people on this earth, there is only one person chosen by God to be redeemed. That one person is anyone who puts there faith in Jesus Christ alone for their salvation. Jesus said in Joh 14:6, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” Then Peter, speaking about Jesus before the council in Ac 4:12 said, "Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved." All roads DO NOT lead to heaven. There is only one way to salvation. There is only one “intervening action which effects a release from an undesirable condition.” that intervening action was the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ whom God sent to effect a release from our sins. Thank You Jesus for dying for my sins, and thank You for showing me the One Way to salvation.