October 30, 2024 Daily Devotion

Radically Changed By The Lord!

You have had yourselves washed… sanctified… justified.

1 Corinthians 6:11

The apostle Paul addresses the Corinthians to ensure that they understand that they all were radically changed by the Lord Jesus and brought into the one family of God. So it does matter how we treat one another. We have been washed through Baptism, cleansed and transformed with the grace to share in the divine life. Leave your prior way of life in the past and look at yourself and others as being infused with divine life and temples of the Holy Spirit.

At our Baptism, we were anointed with sacred oil and set apart growing in grace and likeness to God and deserve to be treated with deep honor and respect. Baptism cleansed us from our sins and made us righteous in the eyes of God. Each one of us has received God’s boundless grace, an unmerited gift. As such, our starting position as we relate to other Christians should be one of reverence for God’s grace at work in them.