I was dead. DEAD. And yet God gave me new life. This is such a big deal. Even in my sin, God loved me and showed me mercy. Jesus gave His very life to ransom me, a person dead in her sin. When I read this, the fact that I was dead in my trespasses, and the fact that we all are dead in our sin really hit me.
And it got me to thinking... no one is any more or less dead in sin than anyone else. It would sound totally illogical for someone to say "Oh, I was just 'sort of' dead in my sin, but those people, they are really dead." What? That seems so ignorant and ridiculous. Thinking like this just makes me want to show compassion towards people who don't yet know what I know about God and the gospel, not because I'm some nice compassionate person who does everything right, but because I was once dead, too. It's only by God's grace that I'm alive in Him today, and He offers that same grace to those who believe.
Isn't God's love and mercy in the cross so amazing? I love passages like Ephesians 2 that remind me of the gospel - because I can so often forget.
2 comments:
AMENAMENAMEN!!!! I was literally tingling when I read the passage and your thoughts on it! You made a really good point when you were talking about how everyone is dead, and you want to share the Gospel with people who are dead just like you were. I am going to read this post again in the future! I know it!!! :)
The Gospel is amazing. Just smack me in the face with the Gospel - I need it. Thanks. :)
That is such a good point - we were all dead in sin. We can't boast, because we didn't do a thing to resurrect ourselves. It was God, being rich in mercy, who did everything, even though we didn't even want Him to do it.
Hey: this is sort of neat. If you say amenamenamen over again like Sarah did you get "a me name name n." "You're the Name above all Names." Random connection - yup. :D
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