It seems that every situation in life can be turned into a “teaching moment.”
What can we learn from our experience, either good or bad?
When we back into another car, we learn to look more carefully.
Receiving a ticket helps us reflect on watching our speed.
Those extra pounds at Christmas? We will have to spend time at the gym.
If every situation can teach us a lesson, what can we learn from salvation? Is it really more than just a milestone we cross on our journey to heaven?
Titus 2:11-12 gives us 2 Lessons We Can Learn from Salvation.
“For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live [as] self-controlled, upright, and godly [examples] in the present age.”
Lesson No. 1: “ . . . training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions . . .”
These are the things we continually back into. We must learn to look more carefully so that we can avoid the things that try to ensnare us.
Lesson No. 2: “ . . . training us . . . to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives . . .”
When we live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives, we don’t have to worry about being ticketed. We won’t gain the extra pounds. Our time at the gym will be spent building up our spiritual muscles, not shedding our worldly fat.
Salvation is a milestone, but it is also a life-changing event that makes a difference every day for the rest of our lives. The lessons we learn from salvation are what allow us to become mighty men and women of God and change the world in Jesus’ name.
When we come to Christ, everything is different from that moment on.
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