Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Revelation 7:1-10
by: Kristin Camenga.
What does it mean that something belongs to you? I think for most of us it conveys ownership, mastery, or a sense of control. We know that salvation belongs to our God. Salvation is something over which he has control and can distribute according to his will. We see God exercising this in the first few verses, where the defining mark of the living God sets apart those who are to be saved. Not even angels have any power to change or overcome this seal. Nothing we can do can overrule God-we can't slip into heaven on our own power, and neither can we set our own set of rules for who will be in the throne room with us for all eternity. Can we leave those things solely in God's hands today?