Psalm 119:41 May Your lovingkindness also come to me, O LORD, Your salvation according to Your word.
We have seen that the Word of God is useful for teaching, and that one thing it teaches us is God's Commandments. This week we want to meditate on the fact that the Word also teaches us how to be saved.
The Law convicts us of sin and condemns us as guilty and deserving God's wrath. How thankful we should be that it doesn't stop there, leaving us in a hopeless situation. Rather, it reveals to us the plan God has always had, by which He would save people from the just deserts of their sins.
The Word tells us about a Savior Who would be God Himself. It tells us how He took human flesh and entered this sinful creation, how He took our place and kept the Law that we had broken. It tells us how He was unjustly sentenced to death, though He had never sinned, and that on the cross He took our place and received from God the punishment that our sins had merited. It tells us that Jesus rose from the dead as a sure sign that His sacrifice for us was accepted by God, and it tells us that now the way of Salvation is opened to all who repent of their sins and trust the work of Jesus as the only way they may be saved.
All of this and more is taught us in the word of God. The psalmist in our text realizes he had not deserved this salvation (and could not). He attributes the blessings of Salvation to God's lovingkindness alone (that is, to His mercy). It is only by His mercy that anyone is saved.
For our purposes this week, realize that there is nowhere else you can go to learn of salvation from sin. No other book tells of a Savior Who kept God's Law for you, and Who received God's wrath for your sins (if you trust in Him). This is Special Revelation indeed!
It is unaccountable, then, that we would not want to read this book, or hear its message of salvation preached!