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The Wednesday Word - 1 June, 2022 A.D.

The God Who is not in Hiding.  by D.G. Miles McKee In Christ Jesus, God has brought His righteousness near (Isaiah 46:13). Therefore, when telling others of His salvation we need to stress that salvation is not some distant and mysterious thing that we have to work hard to obtain.  We don’t have to coax God to come near to us.  We don’t have to, for example, experience the ‘warm fuzzies’ about God in order to get saved.  ‘Warm Fuzzies’ will not bring salvation any nearer than it already is.  Waiting until we feel good about God before we receive salvation is just another form of legalism.  Salvation has already been accomplished (2 Corinthians 5:21). It is finished!   God Himself tells us to call upon His name (Psalm 105:1) for to call upon Him is to believe on Him and to believe on Him is to rest in Him. (Romans 10:13; Romans 4:24; Acts 16:31).   As we gossip the gospel, we don’t offer people a long list of duties to do, or feelings to be formed to make God think well of us.  The gosp