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

Salvation is available to us all, and it is received through both external expression (using our voices) and internal conviction (believing with our hearts). 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’s 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’.