God’s Grace Doesn’t Choose Favorites… It Chooses YOU
Karin Hadadan, best-selling author of Beauty in the Stillness, shares how God’s grace is an open invitation to all, no matter who you are or where you come from.
Salvation is available to us all, and it is received through both external expression (using our voices) and internal conviction (believing with our hearts).
If you declare with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord,’ and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
Romans 10:9
When we declare, ‘Jesus is Lord,’ there is great significance in submitting ourselves to His authority—because it demonstrates our unwavering faith in what we did not witness firsthand: His resurrection. This declaration and belief constitute the greatest proof of our faith. Belief in Jesus’ resurrection is the cornerstone of Christianity—because it affirms that we trust our Father, that we too can be saved, that we are always guided, protected, and loved, and that we have a purpose far greater than what we believe ourselves capable of. The beauty of this simple formula—confession and belief—is that it makes salvation accessible to everyone regardless of background, education, wealth, or status, reflecting God’s heart that no one should be excluded from His grace.
There’s a delicate balance that forms the pillar of receiving salvation: public confession and personal faith. Jesus himself exemplified this balance—publicly sharing, speaking about, and living His beliefs, while also finding quiet moments to activate His heart and connect with God through prayer.
There is transformative power when these elements combine, each nurturing the other. The deeper our internal conviction, the stronger our external expression becomes. The more we externally express our faith, the more we feel called to deepen our internal conviction. In our daily lives, to achieve this balance, we must seek moments of quietude to deepen our faith, and then find appropriate opportunities to share God’s glory with those around us. This is what enables us to declare, with pure honesty and living proof, that ‘Jesus is Lord’.
Salvation is both beautifully simple and profoundly transformative—it begins with belief in the heart and confession with the lips. Declaring “Jesus is Lord” is more than words; it is an act of surrender and recognition of God’s redemptive power through Christ’s resurrection.
This truth invites believers to move beyond private faith into courageous expression, becoming living testimonies of God’s grace. As conviction deepens within, faith naturally extends outward, reflecting the balance between inward transformation and outward proclamation. Through this ongoing act of belief and confession, we embody the message that salvation is available to all—a gift of divine love meant to be both received and shared.
