What must I do?

👤 Rachel 

This was the question the jailer of Paul and Silas asked. Having seen miracles in prison that caused chains to break and locked doors to open, the jailer’s life was in danger; his work could not save him.  Faced with death he asked the two men, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”
The ‘Sirs’ replied, “BELIEVE in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved – you and your household.” There was nothing he could do to save himself, but he must believe in what Jesus Christ had done for him. Acts 16: 25 – 34.

This was the same question the disciples asked Jesus in John 6: 25 – 29. “What must we do?” They had also just witnessed miracles such as the feeding of the five thousand. “What must we do to do the works God requires?” they asked.
Jesus replied, “the work of God is this: BELIEVE in the one he has sent”. He wanted them to believe in his miracles and the identity of the one who did them. 

We might ask God, what must I do? What must I do to be right with you? What must I do to be good enough? What must I do to be saved?
The answer to all these questions, is to BELIEVE. To believe in the miracles that point to the identity of Jesus Christ. To believe in what Jesus Christ has done for you. Like the jailer there is nothing we can do to save ourselves.  

Romans 10: 9 says, “if you declare with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord’ and believe with your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.”
If we BELIEVE in what Jesus has done and in who he is, then our chains will be broken and the locked doors to life will be opened.

We’ve just celebrated Valentines Day. Perhaps the best example of love is this: “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever BELIEVES in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”

“What must I do?” becomes a far more important question with eternal significance: “What do you believe?”