Completely Saved From What

"Therefore he (Jesus) is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them." Hebrews 7:25

Saved completely from what? I believe that we need saving from our own selves. We are our own worst enemy. Overcoming the hardness of our own hearts, greed, grudges, anger, jealousy, selfishness, disappointment....fill in the blank....Ecclesiastes 11:9 says, "Follow the ways of your heart and whatever your eyes see, but know that for all these things God will bring you to judgement."

I think Hebrews 7:25 is saying that the short comings that we think we have are there because we hold onto them. We don't allow God to prune us of them. I like how the verse says that Jesus ALWAYS LIVES TO INTERCEDE. One who is holy, blameless, pure, set apart from sinners is interceding for us. If that is true why do we still have hardened hearts? Because we hold on, we don't let go. Sometimes we refuse to let go, because we are so comfortable. We can't let go because Satan is constantly reminding us of our failures, or how we've been victimized, or who has rubbed us the wrong way, or how everyone else has it better than we do....again fill in the blank.

Satan doesn't attack us because of who and what we are in our lives right now....NO! He attacks us because of WHERE we WILL be in the future and WHAT we WILL do for the Kingdom of God IF we BELIEVE that we are completely saved. Completely saved from the hardness of our own hearts. Why is it so hard to free ourselves from our own shortcomings? The Bible says that "all a man's ways seem right to him, but the Lord weighs the heart." (Proverbs 21:2)