Timing Is Everything

When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins, 

Colossians 2:13

Timing is everything. This is especially awesome when we consider our salvation, our adoption into the family of God, and our acceptance into the kingdom. 

God didn't make us alive with Christ after we repented and performed several acts of contrition. The Holy Spirit, the Hound of Heaven, didn't wait for us to confess our sins and faith in Christ before he started drawing us to Christ. Our Heavenly Father didn't see us come bow our heads at some revival, camp, our church service and decide to let us into the family. 

Timing is everything. God choose us first. When we were dead in our sins and the uncircumcision of our flesh he made us alive with Christ. God's grace, his love, his amazing love is shown to us in that we didn't deserve his love yet when we were least deserving he was most gracious and merciful. He forgave us all our sins. 

In the kingdom of God, God's timing is everything. When we were dead in our sins He forgave us all our sins. That's grace, that's God,

that's amazing!

Are You Alive

When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins, 

Colossians 2:13 NIV

I get what being made alive in Christ means, theoretically. But, what that means in how I am different from before I became a Christian, I struggle to put that in words.  

Here's what I do know: Within me, without God, I am completely unrighteous (Isaiah 64:6, Romans 3:9-20). It is only by the Spirit I can say that Jesus is Lord (I Corinthians 12:3). This leads me to the conclusion that any thought I have about God is the Spirit working in me. If I feel convicted about something, that's the Holy Spirit because otherwise I just wouldn't care. That's being alive Spiritually, or, evidence of being made alive with Christ. It's not about a warm fuzzy feeling, because I often think about God without a lot of emotion. Don't get me wrong. I do often respond emotionally to the truth that in Christ God loves me. It just that faith often moves me when I feel the least like I'm spiritual.

And here is the bottom line for today: Any thought about God, about loving in his Name, about reading the Bible, doing the right (righteous) thing, praying or just remembering that God is Sovereign Lord and Jesus is your Savior, that is part of being alive with Christ. In a sense, just reading this is God being alive in you...

All Our Sins