Nigeria, Nov. 23 -- I asked the members of a Christian fellowship what it means to be saved. What are the practical indices of salvation? They knew they were saved, but could not tell me what it meant. How about this: What are we saved from? If you think it is from the devil, think again. The devil has not given up on you. He is an unrelenting pursuer. He is still after your life on this side of the grave.

We are saved from the absence of God into the fullness of God. Salvation means we now have a relationship with God. That is what it means to have life because God is life. Jesus says:

"I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly." (John 10:10).

This is another way of saying He came so that we may ha...