Today’s (bonus) devotional is from Max Lucado’s Grace for the Moment
Let the Redeemed Say So
You have begun to live the new life,
in which you are being make new and are
becoming like the One who made you.
Colossians 3:10
I wonder if Jesus doesn’t muster up a slight smile as he sees his lost sheep come straggling into the fold — the beaten, broken, dirty sheep who stands at the door looking up at the Shepherd asking, “Can I come in? I don’t deserve it, but is there room in your kingdom for one more?” The Shepherd looks down at the sheep and says, “Come in, this is your home.”
Salvation is the process that’s done, that’s secure, that no one can take away from you. Sanctification is the lifelong process of being changed from one degree of glory to the next, growing in Christ, putting away the old, taking on the new.
The Psalmist David would tell us that those who have been redeemed will say so! If we’re not saying so perhaps it’s because we’ve forgotten what it is like to be redeemed. Let the redeemed of the earth say so!
Walking with the Savior
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With all the insane news and end times signs today, I felt we could all use a second devotional….
This is a great reminder about what God’s will for us is. I love the passage in John where Jesus is asked what works must they do for God.
John 6:28-29 – “Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.”
So often as Christians, we get caught up in works and all the doing and forget that salvation is a gift from God, paid for by Jesus. There is nothing that we can do to ever repay it.
After we have received salvation, then we start working on transforming our lives to be more like Christ. It is not instantaneous, but a process over the rest of our lives here on earth until Jesus comes to take us home.
We do our selves a disservice to set the expectation that sanctification occurs in a moment or that it won’t be an up and down process. We are human, so we have sin as well and always will, but our new goal should be striving to be more like Christ so that we can shine him into this world while we are here.
May Peace be with you!
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