This coming Sunday, we will celebrate the feast day of All Saints. All Saints Day is always November 1st, but that day rarely falls on a Sunday. So, we will celebrate the Lord's overwhelming grace in remembering that He has "looked beyond our weakness and found purest gold in miry clay, making sinners into saints."

We tend to see ourselves separated from the people we read about in the Scriptures as if they were somehow on a different spiritual plain that we are. The shocking fact is that everyone, excepting Jesus Christ alone, was in desperate and vital need of a Savior. 

Save for Jesus, all the people in the Bible after Adam's fall were born spiritually dead, unable to return to the destiny they were created for. The whole mass of us needed to be rescued. Someone had to come "from the outside" to salvage us or we would have remained in our devastated state.

Jesus Christ did just that. And what He did, what He promised, what He gave was to be given to and received by everyone who would put the trust and hope of their whole lives in His hands. 

Those who would trust Him for Life and believe what he had done for them in His death and resurrection, He would give New Life, eternal Life that could not be taken from us, would never abandon us and would never grow smaller, but only more and more full and glorious.