"Salvation is of the LORD." -Jonah 2:9

I cannot think of many things that are useful when they are broken. We are either forced to discard them or to try to have them repaired. You cannot drive a broken car. You cannot use a broken computer. A broken arm will not be of much service to you nor can you walk on a broken leg. I can only think of one thing that is very useful when it is broken, a broken and a contrite heart . When God in His infinite mercy is pleased to call us to Himself and reveal the Gospel to us, He breaks the hard and stony heart of sin and gives us a heart of flesh to humbly approach the throne of grace (Ezekiel 36:26). Consider the advantages of a broken heart! 1). A broken heart is acceptable and pleasing unto God! "The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, Thou wilt not despise" (Psalm 51:17). 2). It makes the soul a fit vessel for God to dwell in! "For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I ...

The good news from heaven to lost sinners, that glorious gospel of salvation in the Lord Jesus Christ, is not a message of God's hopeful expectations to save, but of a salvation purposed and accomplished. It is not a message of Jesus Christ knocking at the door of the sinner's heart, hoping to gain an entrance, but of His determination and ability to give a new heart to whom He will. It is not a message of the Holy Spirit striving with the sinner's natural will, hoping to influence him to “decide for Jesus,” but of His purpose and ability to make sinners willing, causing them to flee to the Lord Jesus Christ (II Timothy 1:9; Psalm 110:3; John 17:2 & Isaiah 53:11). "And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call H is name JESUS: for He shall save His people from their sins" (Matthew 1:21). Just as sure as his name is JESUS, HE SHALL save His people, all His people, from all their sins. What a Savior! - Gospel report by ...