06/25/2026
Confess!
That’s Paul’s advice on how to be saved from Romans 10. If we want eternal life, we have to do two things: Confess that Jesus is Lord and believe God raised Him from the dead.
Those two things sound pretty easy, but they’re deceptively simple. They’re both technically simple, but that’s really just the tip of the iceberg.
See, we often misunderstand both of these things. We assume that believe and confess simply means that we need to believe God is real and be willing to say so. There’s a lot more to it than that, though.
Paul says that we have to confess that Jesus is Lord—meaning that we are willing to follow Him anywhere—and believe that God raised Him from the dead. We have to believe that He is powerful enough to raise the dead—that He is God’s Son. Believing that God exists is a given here. It takes more than that to be a Christian. Being a Christian means recognizing God’s power and aligning yourself with it.