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Do I Really Need a Savior?
 Yes,
I could use a Savoir. I need a place to sleep, and I need food and
medicine. In my case, drugs and alcohol have led to where I am today.
I know that a Savior like Jesus would not want anything to do with someone like
me.
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Yes! Jesus is everyone's Savior.
During Jesus' ministry on earth, He had special heart
for the downtrodden and hurting individuals in society. He especially
ministered to the outcasts and hated individuals of society - the "sinners" of
society:
While Jesus was having dinner at
Levi’s house, many tax collectors and “sinners” were eating with him and his
disciples, for there were many who followed him. When the teachers of the law
who were Pharisees saw him eating with the “sinners” and tax collectors, they
asked his disciples: “Why does he eat with tax collectors and ‘sinners’?”
On hearing this, Jesus said to them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor,
but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
- Mark 2:15-17
Jesus said to them, “I tell you the truth,
the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God ahead of
you. For John came to you to show you the way of righteousness, and you did not
believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes did. And even after you
saw this, you did not repent and believe him.
- Matthew 21:31-32 |
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Christ surprised many people by who he ministered to
while He walked the earth. Christ ministered to prostitutes, tax
collectors, people with dreaded diseases such as leprosy, people possessed by
demons, criminals, blind and paralyzed people, poor people, women and children.
Jesus also ministered to religious leaders, wealthy individuals, and every-day
hard working men and women.
The common thread among all of these individuals was
not their social or financial status, or their physical or emotional health, but
instead it was their spiritual health. When Jesus healed a person, that
person was first healed by faith spiritually, then physically. In some
cases, that person was only healed spiritually and not physically (such the
thief on the cross next to Jesus during the crucifixion). Jesus made it
clear that the truly important healing was the spiritual healing, and that came
about only by that person accepting Jesus as the Son of God, and as their
personal Savior.
It is possible that person may have a physical,
emotional, or a spiritual need, and feel unworthy to accept the free gift of
salvation that Jesus offers to us through faith in Him. But Jesus says
that ALL those who believe in Him are worthy of salvation, so believe and
rejoice:
This righteousness from God comes through faith in
Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference, for all have sinned and
fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by his grace through
the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. - Romans 3:22-24
For more information about accepting
Jesus Christ as your personal Savior, click on one of the links below:
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