Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! — 2 Corinthians 5:17
Here’s the third paradigm shift: We are already righteous.
At first this may seem to contradict everything I said yesterday. But it does not.
When God sees us, He sees righteous men and women, holy saints, children of God, seated in heavenly places.
What gives? Is God blind? Is He living in some kind of Divine denial?
No.
God sees what is not always altogether evident to us. God likes us and He can receive our honesty because He, better than anybody else, knows who we really are. Others see the dirt; He sees the diamond. He knows what He has created inside us. He knows the core of who we are — righteous, holy, Christ-like, courageous, indestructible.
Now here’s the catch: God needs to do His miraculous work in us, so that we can see it too. We need God to put ointment in our eyes so that we can see — see Him, see His love for us, see who we really are.
So that is my prayer for you and me today — may God open our eyes to see.
Be encouraged!
Dwight
Dwight Clough is the author of four Christian books and is an active member of Lake City Church in Madison. This devotional is also available via email and you may review the archives back to 2002. To contact Dwight or Kim, use their contact form. You may also support their ministry.