Everyone Who Calls

Everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved. (Romans 10:13)

Rom. 10:9-13 and 9:2-5; Joel 2:28-32; John 1:11-13; Acts 2:21 and 10:42-43; II Pet. 3:9

What Is God Saying?

No one is good enough to make it by keeping the law. Grace is the only answer. This liberating truth, this blessed gift—the reason Christ came, this amazing grace of God—was brushed aside despite Paul’s pleading, ‘Everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved’ (Joel 2:32). Everyone has sinned. Paul quotes, ‘None is righteous, no, not one’ (Rom 3:10, Ps 14:3, and 53:3). Everyone has sinned, but anyone may be saved. Salvation is free, not cheap, but free. Call upon the name of the Lord, and you will be saved.

How Does This Apply To Us?

There is so much in this brief verse. We don't have to climb a ladder or spend many hours in penance. We don't have to be good enough for God to like us or give us a passing grade. It is not doing work, nor is it a rigorous program of spiritual fitness, just a call of faith, a simple prayer, a sincere invitation to Jesus to come into our hearts and take control. We call upon a person, a loving person who has a name. We don't adhere to a set of rules that we have established. We don't worship idols of stone. We call upon a person with a name, a name above every name. And having done that, we have assurance. Our verse says, ‘will be saved’—not maybe, not perhaps, but will! How wonderful to know that we have been saved!

Pray With Me

Everlasting praise to that name and him who bears it! Jesus is mighty to save. He can scatter the darkness in every corner of every heart turned toward him. I call upon this name, and in a moment, I am saved. It is the name that has become the dearest treasure of my heart. I call upon a person who knows my needs and responds to them.

I thank you, Lord, for the certainty that all who call upon your name will be saved. It rings with confidence. It sings with joy. It is neither wistful longing nor wishful thinking. It is your word of promise. It is as sure as creation. It is as real as light. It is as certain as the seasons of seedtime and harvest. Such is the promise of salvation to those who call upon the name of the Lord. I call on you now, O Strong Deliverer. Let me continue in such constant fellowship with you that your grace, which always saves, shall be the grace I always have.

In that name upon which no penitent and believing heart has ever called in vain. Amen.

Moving On In The Life of Prayer

The essence of prayer is calling upon the name of the Lord. We call on that name after salvation and receive blessings that exceed all we can ask or think. We call on that name in the full knowledge that God, who knows our real problems, has real solutions. God knows where, when, and how we are weak and provides us with strength that is made perfect in weakness. The ultimate power of prayer is God’s power at work within us.