The New Life In Christ

But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.” Luke 9:62

It's a work review, isn't it? Before we can even get started becoming that super-Christian ideal, we are already unfit by way of His review? The world would have us believe so. By now in life we have received so many work reviews, both formal and otherwise, that we may well think of Jesus as the most perfect of job reviewers who we can never hope to satisfy. No, no, no, little sheep! Jesus Himself did the satisfying at the cross for us. We are now the beloved sheep of His pasture. Not that His love was absent before, but our knowing of it was missing in action. When we took up the plow, the new life in Christ, we were given this mission of leaving behind the past. Forgetting might be nice, but conscience and those darts of the enemy will throw the shame of our past at us time and again. However, the guilt and shame of our past sins and trespasses must be plowed under each time they rise like weeds in this new field of our Lord's.

Nope, not easy, but that is why we live this new life in Christ our Lord!

Bucky