I really liked this chapter- as I love being reminded at who I am now in Jesus, and celebrating that I am no longer a slave to the devil. In my Bible I underlined all the words associated with the "was" and "are". Filling in the chart in the application section as powerful for me. I WAS dead. I AM alive! I WAS a follower of Satan. I AM saved and now follow Jesus. I WAS a child of wrath. I AM a child of God. I WAS far off. I AM near to Him. I WAS a stranger, an alien. I AM a fellow citizen and a member of God's household. AMEN!! What stuck me powerfully too, is that it says in verse 3, that "we ALL once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind." I guess with my past of drinking, drugs and sex, I realized I definitely lived in the passions of my flesh. But I never completely grasped that EVERYONE lived in the passions of the flesh- even if they didn't ever drink, ever smoke pot or kiss anyone before marriage! It's so easy to "measure" our sin- but to God we all were sinful. And when I was in the midst of all that sin, God called out my name and saved me from all that! That goes to show that it's not by my works that I am saved, but only by His grace. Amen!
~Leanne~
~Leanne~
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