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SAVED FROM WRATH
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9
1 Thessalonians 5:9

Romans 5:6-10

 

“For God hath not appointed

us to wrath…”

 

SAVED FROM WRATH
 
While the main gist of this section is to warn about the coming day of the Lord and the need to be prepared, yet it ends with a note of assurance for believers. Paul reminds us that the return of the Lord is not an event to be feared, but one to look forward to. If we are children of light, God has not appointed us unto wrath, for that is what the children of darkness will face. Instead, the promise is that we are appointed to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ.
 
The reason for this privilege is simple yet profound. Through the great love and mercy of God, He has spared us from the judgment that we deserve. With the blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, our sins have been forgiven. “Being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him” (Rom 5:9). Jesus endured the wrath of God on the cross at Calvary so that we no longer have to face that wrath. This is what it means for Christ to have been the propitiation for our sins – that through the sacrifice of Christ, the wrath of God has been appeased. “Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins” (1 John 4:10). Therefore, by His grace and through His love, we are free from the judgment of the wrath of God and from eternal damnation in hell because of our sins.
 
Instead of wrath, we look forward to the promise of salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ. When He returns for His bride, all that are in Christ will be snatched away from the judgments of the Great Tribulation, described as “the great day of his wrath” (Rev 6:17). We will be granted that glorified resurrected body, a body that we will have for all of eternity. We will be saved to the uttermost, not through any merit of our own, but because of all that Christ has done for us on the cross at Calvary.
 
Therefore, as we ponder the return of Christ, know that it is a day to celebrate, and not to dread. It is a time when we shall experience the grace of God, and not His judgment. We will obtain salvation, and not wrath.
 
THOUGHT: It is a terrifying thing to face the wrath of God.
PRAYER: Father, I thank Thee that I have been saved from wrath through the Lord Jesus Christ.

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