I must imbue my mind with the fact that salvation is a process. True, it has a starting point; therefore, I can say, “I am saved, or I have been saved.” But since it is also a process, I must say, I am “in the process of being saved” (1 Corinthians 1:18, Williams). The same process works conversely in the unsaved; they are “being lost” or “are on the way to destruction” (2 Thessalonians 2:10, Williams).
Once I get over the hump of believing everything is settled, then I can begin to grow. Many evangelicals are notoriously shallow Christians because they cannot get past the “everything is done” aspect of their salvation. So they tend to stagnate instead of growing.
I am impressed with Jeremiah’s lesson at the potter’s house. “The vessel … was marred … so he made it again” (Jeremiah 18:4, KJV). God is continuously “making us again,” that is, correcting, shaping, and improving us until little by little the wonderful life of His Son, Jesus Christ, is seen and felt through us. The comforting thing about process salvation is what I do with my failures—I let the Master Potter mold them into something redemptive. Thus, failures need not drive me to despair but, rather, to hope, because salvation means that God is saving me daily from my weaknesses and sins.
My salvation is a dailymiracle, and my expectation from God must be daily too. I can tell you what God did for me; but even more, I can relate what He is doing for me now. The process of salvation means that heaven will not be populated with newborn babies but mature saints, and their praise will be the praise of experience. The excitement of the Christian life is watching God slowly but surely transform me from a marred vessel into a vessel of honor, meet for the Master’s use.
“But speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him, who is the head, even Christ” (Ephesians 4:15).
Daily with the King 