“My salvation comes from the LORD alone.” Jonah 2:9
Heavenly Father, Jonah expressed his gratitude of the grace-gift of his salvation while he was still in the mercy-chamber of a large fish. As your daughters and sons, we join his praise from a wide variety of other contexts.
Some of us are new believers—still damp with the morning dew of new life in Jesus. Some of us are decades-old in Christ—having logged stories of loss and laughter, mercy and mystery, hardships and heart-joys. All of which have made the Gospel necessary and gloriously precious.
Some of us are nearing the end of life as we know it, and we eagerly anticipate the fullness of life you have promised. Some of us are “smack-dab” in the middle of a very hard season—maybe the hardest ever. But as your beloved children, each of us wants to declare the one thing we are most certain of—the one reality that transcends our windfalls and wipeouts. “My salvation comes from the LORD alone.”
Truly, our salvation is a work we didn’t begin, and you alone can finish. We never could have performed our way out of our sin, or earned our way into your love. From beginning to end, our salvation is all of grace, declaring your glory and securing our blessing. Hallelujah, and thank you, Father.
You have given Jesus as our “righteousness, holiness, and redemption” (1 Cor. 1:30). We lack nothing we need for eternity. We need nothing more today than you will give. You will complete your good work in us (Phil. 1:6). So very Amen, we pray in Jesus’ most wonder-full name.