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Don’t I Need to Be Fixed Up?

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Becoming Able to Become the Men God Wants Us To Be

Jesus’ victory over sin becomes our victory when we decide to let him into our lives—when we decide to follow him. When we do that, Jesus re-engineers us: “If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation” (2 Cor. 5:17).

What Jesus did on the cross allows us to transform, over time, and become more and more like what Adam was before the fall— perfectly whom God wants us to be and in perfect relationship with him, without sin, without shame, without separation. 

But we don’t become perfect in an instant, of course. We don’t instantly become the men God wants us to be. And we don’t come back into perfect relationship with him in an instant either. 

What does happen, though, is that we become able. We become able to become those men. Able to be taught and trained to deal with sin. Able to be taught and trained to confess and repent, to live in freedom and joy and peace and purpose. Able to be taught and trained to be in relationship and conversation with our head-over heels Father God. 

Able to come home. 

We’ll continue to struggle, of course, but less and less. We’ll heal and learn and be less and less tempted by sin—more able to recognize temptations for what they are. 

We will become perfectly whom God wants us to be—but slowly. And not completely until Jesus returns and makes “all things new” (Rev. 21:5).

Until then, he transforms us “from glory to glory” (2 Cor. 3:18).

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Don’t I Need to Be Fixed Up?

You may have asked, "But what about my sin? How could God want a personal relationship with me?" "He knows my past, He knows what I’m struggling with right now. How could he ever want to be around someone like me?" "Shouldn’t I come back later, after I get myself all fixed up?"... These are great questions, and the truth will blow your mind. Think bigger!

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