It wasn’t so long ago that you were mired in
that old stagnant life of sin. You let the world, which doesn’t know
the first thing about living, tell you how to live. You filled your
lungs with polluted unbelief, and then exhaled disobedience. We all did
it, all of us doing what we felt like doing, when we felt like doing it,
all of us in the same boat. It’s a wonder God didn’t lose his temper
and do away with the whole lot of us. Instead, immense in mercy and with
an incredible love, he embraced us. He took our sin-dead lives and made
us alive in Christ. He did all this on his own, with no help from us!
Then he picked us up and set us down in highest heaven in company with
Jesus, our Messiah. Now God has us where he wants us, with all the time
in this world and the next to shower grace and kindness upon us in
Christ Jesus. Saving is all his idea, and all his work. All we do is
trust him enough to let him do it. It’s God’s gift from start to finish!
We don’t play the major role. If we did, we’d probably go around
bragging that we’d done the whole thing! No, we neither make nor save
ourselves. God does both the making and saving. He creates each of us by
Christ Jesus to join him in the work he does, the good work he has
gotten ready for us to do, work we had better be doing.
The Message
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