Some Things are Indescribable for a Reason
January 23, 2008
by Michael Schwartz
A couple weeks ago during a meeting, God said something to me that
was very perplexing:
"Some things are indescribable for a reason."
I've spent a lot of time pondering this; it's a very interesting
thought. I decided to look up the word "indescribable" in the
Bible, and found that it appears in the NIV only once.
2 Corinthians 9:15 - Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift!
This is intriguing. God's gift, according to Paul, is
indescribable. But what is God's gift?
God's gift is salvation.
Salvation cannot be described. There is no recipe or method for
getting saved. It is something unique to each individual, and no
saved person will be able to tell you exactly how they got saved,
or why they feel like they're saved. I could tell you a few events
and actions that I did that led up to my salvation, but I wouldn't
be able to tell you when my relationship with God took off or why I
feel the way I do.
I could give you a recipe for salvation. Some of you have probably
heard of the popular "Four Steps to Salvation" method. Though I do
not exactly disagree with the general idea, salvation cannot be
boiled down into a few simple directions to which everyone can
follow. I didn't get saved by reading the Four Steps to Salvation.
I didn't even get saved all at once. My Christian faith has been
more of a journey than an explosion of passion that happened all at
once then faded into the background.
Some get saved because they're in a lot of emotional or physical
pain and go to God as a last resort. Some because they heard
someone preaching in the streets. Some because they realized
that their entire "Christian" walk was completely fake.
The only common factors between all occurrences of salvation are
God and prayer. There is nothing else.
"Asking God to come into your heart" and phrases like that are
simply clichés that people want to use to try to describe the
indescribable gift of God that is salvation. In doing so, the usual
outcome is the creation of dry machines that think they are saved
simply because they followed the instructions of a descriptive
document. All of these machines are exactly like each other because
they all have made the exact same gestures.
You cannot be saved just because you've fulfilled the requirements
listed on a sheet of paper. Your salvation is unique, and nobody on
this earth can tell you whether or not you're saved. Only you and
God know that. If you follow someone else's path toward salvation,
you will only end up being lost just as you were before. To witness
true salvation for yourself, you must make your own path.
Some things are indescribable for a reason.
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