Acts 2:21 · World English Bible
Acts 2:21 Meaning It Will Be That Whoever Will Call
It will be that whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.’
What does Acts 2:21 mean?
Calling on the LORD is lodging an appeal, the word used when a Roman citizen took his case over a local court's head to Caesar. A person with no standing appeals to a name that has it, and the appeal is heard.
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Calling on the LORD is lodging an appeal, the word used when a Roman citizen took his case over a local court's head to Caesar. A person with no standing appeals to a name that has it, and the appeal is heard.
The name belongs to Israel's God, and here it settles on Jesus, whom God raised and made Lord. "Whoever" shuts out no one, whatever they have been. Rescue is from God's judgment on a day He has already set, and He performs it, while the one calling brings only the asking.
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Live Acts 2:21 today
- Say the shortest honest prayer you have, out loud or under your breath, while the coffee heats or the car warms up. You do not need better words first, and you do not need to clean yourself up before you ask.
- When someone tells you the thing they are ashamed of, do not flinch or fix it. Let your face say that there is no version of them that puts them outside help.
- In the hour when it all tips over, the bad scan result, the email you dreaded, the call from school, stop and ask for help before you start strategizing. Asking is your whole part in it.
What have you decided you are too far gone to ask for?
The same truth in other traditions
Pure Land Buddhism
Amida's vow is said to reach anyone who simply calls the name, including those with nothing good to show for themselves. The calling does not earn the rescue; it accepts one already prepared.
Sikhism
Repeating the divine Name is the whole practice, and what it opens is grace rather than payment. The one who calls brings nothing but the calling.
Bhagavad Gita 9
Krishna says that whoever turns to him, however far outside the respectable circles they stand, is received. No birth or history disqualifies the one who turns.
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