My wife and I recently took our daughter to the airport where she would leave on a trans Atlantic flight. I would have liked to see the pilot so I could tell him that I was committing to his care one of the most precious things in the world to me. I also would have liked to see if he looked like he had done this before: did he have the experience to take my baby across the ocean? Did he have the wisdom to know what details should be checked? Did he have the patience to check and double check every detail? Did he have the ability to handle that aircraft in a variety of weather conditions? Did he have the knowledge of the maps they would use so he knew the proper route to take so they would arrive safely? I am sure he had all of that and more.

As we were leaving the airport, I thought how thankful I am that our Savior is worth trusting. Sinners can confidently put all of their hope of salvation in the Lord Jesus Christ. Does Christ our Savior have the experience to save a sinner like me? Yes, He is the eternal Savior, the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. Christ has been the Savior of sinners longer than there have been sinners. Does Christ have the wisdom to save a sinner like me? Yes, His very name is Wisdom, in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. (Col 2:3) He not only knows how to save His people, He knows His sheep and calls His sheep by name. Does Christ have the ability to save a sinner like me? Yes, He is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. (Heb 7:25) Does Christ have the patience to save a sinner like me? Yes, Thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth. (Ps 86:15) Does Christ know the route to salvation and ultimate glorification for a sinner like me? Yes my friend He does, for Christ IS the way of salvation.

How thankful I am to have such a Savior in whom I can entrust my most precious possession: my soul. I say with the apostle Paul, “I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.”

“I am a debtor both to the Greeks and the Barbarians: both to the wise and unwise.” By that, Paul meant he was indebted to all men. And what was the debt he owed them? The preaching of the Gospel! His reasoning was, since God had saved the very chief of sinners in saving him, he was obligated to tell other sinners that “faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation: that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.” This we know. No sinner will be saved apart from hearing and believing the Gospel. And we have been given this mandate, “Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature.” Oh, that God would give us a sense of indebtedness toward men that creates a desire for them to hear and be saved by the same Gospel that saved us. May we all say and feel “I am a debtor.”