A truck driver had recently become a Christian. When a Christian writer asked him to give an incident that showed he was different because he had put his faith in Jesus, the trucker replied, “Well, when somebody tailgates my trucks, I no longer drive on the shoulder of the road to kick gravel on him.”
That driver’s experience illustrates an important truth: When a person is in Christ, he is indeed a new creation. He does things differently because he is not the person he was before he trusted Jesus. This doesn’t’ mean he will not fall into sin, nor that he becomes a mature believer overnight. But a miraculous transformation has taken place.
Theologian Lewis Sperry Chafer pointed out several changes that happen at conversion. We are joined with Christ in His death, burial, and resurrection (Romans 6:3-6), made alive (Ephesians 2:1), made a child of God (1 John 3:1-3), justified before God (Romans 5:1), forgiven (Colossians 1:14), delivered from the powers of darkness (Colossians 1:13), loved by God (Ephesians 2:4), indwelt by the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 6:19), and made the object of Christ’s intercession (Hebrews 7:25).
Yes, to know Christ as savior makes you a brand-new person. Are you letting the difference show in your life? – J. David Branon
What is it to be born again,
Unless it’s plain to see
A difference in the way I live –
A change inside of me? – Sper
A Christian is one who makes a choice and experience a change.
- October 9, 1990, Our Daily Bread
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