The Day of Our Salvation

And so, dear ones, as often as we get weary on this life's journey and it seems to go hard with us, let's look back to the day of our salvation. Let's look back to the time when the Lord Jesus touched our hearts with His finger of love and called us with a tender and a merciful call. And let us look back to those joyful hours when we could confess peace and forgiveness and we could be baptized into His name and could greet the brothers and sisters in Christ for the first time. What a wonderful thing it was!

And it says there even among the children of Israel, it speaks of it there that they had to make a memorial, so to speak, so that when the children would ask them what it was for, that they would answer their children and tell them, "This is where the Lord delivered us and brought us over the Jordan. This is where the Lord delivered us from our enemies."

And, dear ones, when we go back to the day of our salvation, when we're tempted, when we're weary, and when we even would become tired, it gives us new courage again, does it not? And so also were the children of Israel reminded that they should look back to the time when God with wonderful miracles had delivered them from their taskmasters in Egypt and brought them [out].
--Sermon Excerpt: Elder Bro. J.W.