November 14 Hebrews 7:25. Therefore he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them.
It has been my observation that salvation is both an event and a process. Some people are born into a faithful family. Therefore they are immersed from the beginning with prayers at bed time, grace at meals, Sunday school and godly parents. They spend years growing in Grace.
Yet there comes a time, an event, a reconning, when a more or less dramatic encounter with the numinous presence of God makes their salvation more complete. Even then the process may seem to be already but not yet.
2 Timothy 1: 14 Guard the good deposit that was entrusted to you—guard it with the help of the Holy Spirit who lives in us.
I am a process first example. That beginning immature faith was destroyed when my father died at an early age. Six years later an experience of the Lord, a numinous event, completed my salvation with a large deposit.
I have known many people for whom the event came first. One young man in particular sticks in my memory. He was raised in a secular, non believing home. In his early 20s he felt lost and decided to read the Bible. When he got to the parable of the lost sheep he reached out to Jesus and was saved. The “process” of completing his salvation came next, seeking out a church, Bible reading, learning to pray etc.
Where are you in the event process dichotomy?
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