Christ May Be Savior, But Is He Our Lord – Sunday Thought For The Day

It’s one thing to say Christ is our Savior.  When we say He is our Savior, if we have accepted Him as God’s only acceptable sacrifice for our sins, we are speaking truthfully.

However, it’s something entirely different when we say Jesus is our Lord, it means: He is our master, our authority, and our controller.  We may call Jesus our Savior and our Lord, but is He really?

We can call Him our Savior and still be somewhat carnal, worldly, in short we can call Him Savior and be absolutely correct, because by faith are we saved.  We can call Him our Savior and live our lives loose around the edges.  For instance, we can accept Christ as our Savior and still be more interested in the flesh, i.e., the world, than we are interested in faithfully attending church, faithfully reading our bibles, faithfully spending time with Him every day.

But, we cannot call Him our Lord and not want to be obedient to Him.  When we truly recognize Christ as our Lord we want more than anything else to please Him by obeying Him.  If Christ is truly our Lord, then He is also truly our Master and we desire to serve Him with humility, honor, honesty/truthfulness and most of all we must desire to be obedient.

We can call Jesus our Savior, but we cannot truthfully call Him our Lord unless we are willing to humble ourselves before Him and serve Him to the best of our ability by the power and leading of the Holy Spirit.

Christ knows our hearts.  We can be saved, but are we willing to be servants of Christ Jesus who we should recognize as Lord.  We can be Saved, but what will it be like to stand before Christ Jesus with our heads hung in shame, because we didn’t serve and obey Him?

If we are living our lives without any interest in serving Christ Jesus and being obedient to Him, it is of critical importance to revisit just how it is we came to believe we were saved.  Heaven forbid we stand before Him and hear Him say that He never knew us.

READ:

Romans 1:1-7 (KJV)

1 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God,

2 (Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,)

3 Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh;

4 And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:

5 By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name:

6 Among whom are ye also the called of Jesus Christ:

7 To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.