Changed!
Dearly beloved, by His wonderful grace God made us complete in Christ.
We are saved because Christ did the work that made it possible. We are righteous before God in Christ. We are holy and without blame before our Father in Christ. We are sanctified by the spirit that Christ made available. We will be glorified like Christ when he returns for us.
Nothing we do can change what Christ accomplished for us and is in us. It is a done deal forever!
Did we deserve it? No way! Did Christ nonetheless accomplish these things for us? Yes, he did. Is it really true? Yes, by the grace of God it is now a reality!
Dearly beloved of the Lord, if we are to experience a change in our lives commensurate with these accomplishments, we must believe what God says is true, and not continue to confess what our flesh tells us. Believing says that it is as God says it is. End of story.
Thinking and believing are our responsibilities, not God’s. God does not overrule our freedom of will. Christ accomplished these realities, and God accounted his accomplishments to us by His exceeding great grace. These spiritual realities are ours now!
We can choose to continue to think and believe as we always have; that we are sinners, unworthy, with condemnation for past sins, failures, and devilish doubts, continue to live in the past, and continue to condition our minds by earthly, carnal, and devilish thoughts like these; or we can decide to think and believe that it is as God says it is.
For example, if our Father says we stand before Him in Christ as righteous without any sense of sin, guilt or condemnation, you should not go around condemning yourselves and confessing that you are not good enough to have this access; that you are not good enough for God to answer your prayer. Either God lied or you are lying to yourself. Which is it?
You are a new creation in Christ; believe it, confess it, live like it. It is as God says it is!
We are complete in Christ! Yes, but…. NO! We are completely, completely, completely complete in Christ. There is no question about it so stop doubting it! Lead every thought captive to what Christ accomplished!
God produced the product; He created us in Christ Jesus. We are His workmanship. We are the operators; we utilize, we activate, and apply what He accomplished in Christ by believing. We operate what He created – it does not operate us.
When you decide to believe that you are who God says you are in Christ, you will experience a transformation, and you will prove these things to be so! You will be changed, beloved. Believe that it is as God says it is. Amen!