2 1-6 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 the highest heaven in company with Jesus, our Messiah.
7-10 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.
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