Hymns: Salvation Song

I’ve been exploring some of the very modern worship songs as an old guy 😀. But now, I’ve decided to alternate between very modern hymns, old hymns, and in-between hymns, namely the worship songs from the 60s to the 90s that feature in hymnbooks such as Mission Praise. Today it’s the turn of the very modern hymns.

Today’s song is Salvation Song from 2025.

I like to try to keep up with the very recent songs. And this one is quite new. I like the simple evangelistic message. Some dislike simple messages. They fear that people will make a committment without really understanding what they’re doing. The other extreme is to spend years wondering if your repentance and faith are genuine enough. I often think of this verse from the New Testament:

Mark 9:24
²⁴ Immediately the boy’s father exclaimed, “I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief!”

No-one is going to have perfect repentence and faith. But what God looks for is a sincere desire to trust in Him. I did spend several years thinking it all through. But if I went forward at some evangelistic crusade and later wondered whether I was driven by the excitement of the event or social pressure, I would privately come to Jesus in prayer and say “Lord I genuinely want to commit my life to you. If I haven’t done it already, I want to do it now.”

Even after you do that, you’ll still make mistakes and sin. But when God adopts you into His family, He doesn’t kick you out again. A parent will rebuke their children and disciple them in other ways, but I’ve rarely heard of anyone sending an adopted child back to the orphanage. God saves and keeps you. So, salvation isn’t only for perfect people – the offer goes out to everyone – and no-one is perfect in any cases – apart from God Himself. But the offer of salvation isn’t a little trick to get you to heaven. God does want you to love Him and love others, and commit yourself to discipleship. Some do better than others, but all commit themselves to that. And there’s no other path to heaven apart from faith in Jesus. We certainly can’t earn a place in heaven by good works.

The bridge of the song includes a reference to one of the most well-known, and well-loved, verses of the New Testament:

John 3:16
¹⁶ 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.

Here are some other versions of the song: