Thank God for the ‘Were’

“And that is what some of you were.

But you were washed, you were sanctified,

you were justified in the name of the

Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.”

I Corinthians 6:11

Thank God for the ‘were’!

Paul makes it pretty plain in I Corinthians 6:11 when he describes what some of us ‘were’.

Our lives need to be ‘were’ lives.

Not ‘look down the nose of those we were like’ lives.

But rather a ‘were’ that says: I once was but thank God, He is doing a work in me!

Our lives need to be ‘were’ lives that are full of the evidence of the transforming work of Jesus Christ.

May it be that people look at us and don’t have to ‘spiritually squint’ or stare to see the new creation work.

Let the were be the contrast and not the continuum.

We have put on Christ and are no longer who we once were.

That contrast alone, in our lives, becomes a powerful witness to others who knew the ‘were’ we were!

It strengthens our testimony as we grow in Him and

do not return to the ‘way we were’.