The Whole Package

So many Christians live with anxiety about what they are doing, and how God is relating to them. Listen. Everything that is needed for salvation is provided by our Triune God. Repentance, Faith, Obedience, Justification, Sanctification, Glorification, the whole package of salvation

is provided *for us. He gives.We receive. Even the works we do (which are gift, not meritorious) were determined before the world's foundation (Eph 2:10).

The Westminster Shorter Catechism provides us with so much comfort, as we read Who it is that is the primary Actor from start to finish...

Westminster Shorter:

Question 87. What is repentance unto life?

Answer: Repentance unto life is a saving ***grace, whereby a sinner, out of a true sense of his sin, and apprehension of the mercy of God in Christ, doth, with grief and hatred of his sin, turn from it unto God, with full purpose of, and endeavour after, new obedience.

Question 33: What is justification?

Answer: Justification is an act of God’s free ***grace, wherein He pardoneth all our sins, and accepteth us as righteous in His sight, only for the righteousness of Christ imputed to us, and received by faith alone.

Question 35 - What is sanctification?

Answer: Sanctification is the work of God's free ***grace, whereby we are renewed in the whole man after the image of God, and are enabled more and more to die unto sin, and live unto righteousness. Such good news! The whole package of salvation is ours. Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. For you are saved by grace through faith, and this is not from yourselves; it is God’s gift— not from works, so that no one can boast. ~Ephesians 2:8-9