GRACE!
11 For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, 12 training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, 13 waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, 14 who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works. (Titus 2)
If God's grace can save us, can it not then also change us? That is the plan after all: God brings us salvation, then begins this transformation process, whereby we reject the selfish life and start living the godly lives He intends, while we wait for the life to come. Christ's work is not just effective for our future home with Him, but even now - to buy us back from sin's slavery, so we can serve Him with our activity here and now. We are in God's training program - where we are to be learning victorious living over sin's power and pull. We now belong to Him in a double sense - as His creation and His redemption. Let us live for the One Who died for us!
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