IF salvation indeed comes from God, and is entirely His work, just as our creation was, it follows, as a matter of course, that our first and highest duty is to wait on Him to do that work as pleases Him. Waiting becomes then the only way to the experience of a full salvation, the only way, truly, to know God as the God of our salvation.

There are some 8.2 BILLION people on planet earth. And while it’s difficult to wrap our minds around that number – 8.2 billion – we might ask ourselves two sobering questions. First, “Who am I among so many?” And second, “Do I matter among so many?” Without a good understanding of Scripture, we can never truly know the definitive answer to those questions.