Believe and Confess

Romans 10:9-10
9 Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.

I know most of my readers have asked Jesus into their lives, thus I generally write about the daily following of Christ. Today, however, I just want to put up the simplicity of starting that journey with Christ.

Remember that Christianity is a relationship not a religion. The relationship we strive for is that with God through Christ Jesus. "Strive" may not be the best way to describe the relationship - for it was God who took the step to establish the relationship with man (Adam & Eve in Genesis) and to reconcile the relationship when we rejected Him (through Jesus Christ who died for our sins, but rose from the dead, thus conquering sin and death).

If you believe in that substitutionary death of Jesus and His resurrection and confess it with your mouth, you belong to God - you are His child. You are saved - nothing can take that away. And from that day you choose either to obey God or disobey Him - and that's the lifelong journey with Christ.

Romans 6:3-4
3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? 4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.