Let The Redeemed

Let the Redeemed Say So

You have begun to live the new life, in which you are being made new and are
becoming like the One who made you.
Colossians 3:10 (NCV)

I wonder if Jesus doesn't muster up a slight smile as he sees his lost sheep
come straggling into the fold--the beaten, broken, dirty sheep who stands at
the door looking up at the Shepherd asking, "Can I come in? I don't deserve
it, but is there room in your kingdom for one more?" The Shepherd looks down
at the sheep and says, "Come in, this is your home."


Salvation is the process that's done, that's secure, that no one can take
away from you. Sanctification is the lifelong process of being changed from
one degree of glory to the next, growing in Christ, putting away the old,
taking on the new.


The Psalmist David would tell us that those who have been redeemed will say
so! If we're not saying so, perhaps it's because we've forgotten what it is
like to be redeemed. Let the redeemed of the earth say so!


From: Walking with the Savior
Copyright (Tyndale House, 1993)
Max Lucado