So we have stopped evaluating others from a human point of view. At one time we thought of Christ merely from a human point of view. How differently we know him now! This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!
This verse gives us a reason to be both. Our lives have been changed by the grace of God and because of the gift of His son.
That second verse is the most powerful one. The old stuff, the old way, the old life and all our sin is gone, forgiven and washed away. It is our choice to live that truth out or to go back to the old way.
The first verse gives us something to think about. It says we are to look at life from a new point of view. The old way or the human was is one of legalism or judging. It examines people from what you see and what they have done, but that is not the way that God looks at us.
He sees us as His children, forgiven, changed and set on a new path. That is how we are to look at others, too.
Live like you are changed.
Look at others in a new, God-given way.
That is a new and bold way to make our lives count for the good of God’s kingdom and to see more lives changed, like He has changed ours. Live changed and keep on being bold about it!
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