What can we change?
Our shirt. That’s an easy one. A fresh shirt and we smell better, feel crisper, and are more confident around others.
We should all change shirts from time to time.
How about our job? Burn-out is a very real thing. It’s why CEOs of large companies will give up high-paying jobs to do something they enjoy.
Then there’s our house . . . even our city. New views, new friends, and a new church.
And our car. Don’t forget that. Maybe you want to drive a classic . . . or the smell of new leather has taken hold of you.
What about us, the you and me that we live in every day? If this were a science fiction novel, we could even change that.
That’s not happening, is it . . . or is it?
Let’s read in Titus 3:3-5:
“For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another. But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit.”
Then . . . and now. Before . . . and after. What we were . . . what we have become.
Making a change for the better. That’s what Christ came to offer us.
We were foolish, disobedient, let astray and more.
Now we walk in righteousness and are renewed through the power of the Holy Spirit.
Jesus makes us new, and we are completely changed in him.
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