Our Relationship with God

Step 3: Make Jesus Saviour and Lord

We cannot save ourselves; we need a Saviour. Often, people try to earn their salvation by doing good things or performing religious activities, but none of these things can save us. Actually, salvation is by what the Bible calls grace. “For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith - and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God” (Ephesians 2:8).

Jesus must be our only Saviour. We must embrace Jesus Christ as God’s only provision for our sin. “For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus” (1 Timothy 2:5).

Because of the cross, Jesus is already King of Kings and Lord of Lords. So Jesus must be our only Lord, which means that He is now in charge of your life. He must take over everything – absolutely everything! Romans 10:9 says, “If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.”

Practically, here is what it means to make Jesus Lord:

1. Lordship means that you walk in obedience to Jesus. According to the Bible, if you call Jesus Lord, then you commit to obey the things He teaches us. “Why do you call me 'Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you?” (Luke 6:46).
2. Confessing Jesus as Lord means that your heart belongs totally to Him. “But in your heart honour Christ the Lord” (1 Peter 3:15).
3. Confessing Jesus as Lord is a continuous walk with Him. “Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him” (Colossians 2:6).