Are you experiencing a difference in your life since you accepted Christ?
The Bible says, “Anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun” – 2 Corinthians 5:17
If you truly believe that Jesus died in your place for your sins, then that old sinful life is dead. God has given you a new life so that you are now free to live for Him. You see, the Bible describes that you were once a slave to sin and death, but God redeemed – or bought back, ransomed - you. Not only that; when you accept Jesus as your Savior, He adopts you as His very own child. He gives you a whole new identity that declares you are now in God’s family! As God’s child we are free to say "no" to our fleshly desires. We are free to live fully a new life in Christ.
“So you should not be like cowering, fearful slaves. You should behave instead like God’s very own children, adopted into His family - calling Him ‘Father, dear Father’. For His Holy Spirit speaks to us deep in our hearts and tells us that we are God’s children. “ –Romans 8:15-16
Jesus died, not to make you His slave, but because He wanted a relationship with you. God gives us the Holy Spirit so we might be secure in our position as God’s child. Then we can obey and please Him, not out of fear, but because He is our daddy.
Have you ever thanked God for adopting you into His family? Let’s celebrate your new identity in Christ right now!
Thank you, Almighty God, for lavishing your love on us through your Son Jesus. Help us understand more and more what this means to be your child so that we might live out this truth. Amen!