Psalm 119:146 Call for Salvation

I call out to you;
save me and I will keep your statutes.

Psalm 119:146

I will never tire of encountering this statement of grace over and over in the scriptures. David states it as simply here as Paul lays it out in Ephesians 2:8-10.

For it is by grace you have been saved [save me], through faith [I call out to you] —and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God. not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do [and I will keep your statutes].

Calling out to God is an act of faith. Without at least a kernel of faith, no one would cry out to a God who is not visible and often elusive. By opening up a conversation with God, even the most hesitant of agnostics allows the possibility that "he is there and is not silent", as Francis Schaeffer often said. There's no point in calling out to a God who does not exist or who has so dissociated himself from humanity that there's no possibility of a response.

Faith is also required in order to believe God will save and that he has indeed saved. I know I personally never saw a dove descending from heaven at the time of my baptism, nor did I hear God express that he is well pleased with me.  I simply have to believe the promises I read in his scriptures and have faith in his intent to follow through on the promise that we are saved by grace through faith.

As the seed of faith grows into whole hearted trust, we become what God has had in mind all along, the sort of people who don't need to be bribed into keep his statutes but who eagerly seek out the good works he has prepared for all of us and each of us to do.

My voice, your voice, the voice each person walking on the 1 road of life, when directed toward God, opens not only lines of communication with God and with each other, but opens doors into the confidence that comes from grace and pushes us onward along the road of life with God.