“Vancouver, Vancouver, this is it!” — the final words of David Johnston as Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980. The rescue mission could not save him. But God’s rescue mission has succeeded. Through Jesus Christ, God has made a way of escape from the coming wrath. The question is: Will you respond while the rescue is available? This Is It. Jesus is calling. Will you come?
How great is our God? His greatness is beyond our understanding, yet He has made Himself known through His love for us. “For God so loved the world” that He gave His only-begotten Son, not to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.
In Him we live, move, and exist. Nothing is hidden from His eyes, and every heart and every life is fully known to Him. The greatness of God is seen not only in His power and majesty, but in the depth of His love and His desire to save.
A great God has made a great salvation available to us — through Jesus Christ.
What does it truly mean to be righteous before God? Scripture shows us that all have sinned and fallen short of God’s glory, and that our own righteousness can never make us right with Him. Yet God, in His mercy, has provided a righteousness that comes through faith in Jesus Christ.
From the sinner who turns from his ways, to the humble tax-gatherer who cries, “O God, have compassion on me, the sinner,” we see that God is not seeking our self-righteousness, but a heart that turns to Him.
And as the river in Ezekiel’s vision flows deeper and deeper, bringing life wherever it goes, so the righteousness and grace of God bring forgiveness, transformation, and new life.
God’s righteousness is not something we can earn — it is something God freely gives through Christ.
