Simply believe

“This righteousness from God comes trough faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe.” Romans 3:22
One of the most difficult things for us to get our heads around, is how simple it is to be saved. Other religions will tell us we have to do some mammoth thing, or attend special classes, or serve for x number of years, or give so much, or ... But Christianity is not like this at all. Christianity is not about us doing things for God to be saved, but about what God has done for us. This is what God has done for you: He sent His only Son to die on the cross, paying the price for your sin so you don’t have to. The offer is available to everyone – all you have to do is accept it and believe that Jesus Christ died and rose again, and by doing so has made atonement for you.
It all boils down to one word: faith. Now, ‘faith’, along with ‘hope’, are two Biblical words whose meanings have been weakened in our everyday usage of them. We say things like ‘I hope it won’t rain’, meaning, ‘I wish it won’t rain.’ Then we tend to think of the hope of salvation as being a wishful thought. (Rather, Biblical hope is a deep-seated confidence in something God has promised, that we know will come to pass in the future.) Similarly, we think of faith as being some wishy-washy thing, that it’s something you would like to be true, but reality might pan out differently. We might have faith in a sports team, believing they can win.
But Biblical faith is much more than this. The Bible tells us that faith has a substance: “Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see” (Heb. 11:1). How sure are you that Jesus died and rose again? How sure are you that your sin has been paid for?
Often we use the Christian-ese phrase, ‘taking a step of faith’. It’s not a physical step. But spiritually, it is. When we decide to accept Christ’s work on the cross on our behalf, and come to salvation, we are making a conscious decision to relocate ourselves spiritually. That’s where the ‘step’ comes in.
Sometimes we can feel like faith is not enough, that surely God requires more from us. But this spiritual relocation, that conscious decision we make, is the only thing God requires us to do. It was said of David, “Man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart” (1 Sam. 16:7). It’s the same with us. We might not look any different on the outside, but God sees the difference inside. That’s why it’s enough to ‘simply believe’ in Christ for salvation.