Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - The Past You're Not Proud Of - #8364

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

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The teacher was late that day in senior French class, and our daughter and her classmates had just gotten their senior pictures. So, the girls starting pulling pictures out of their wallets. Now, our daughter had two pictures that were especially interesting to everybody. Her seventh grade picture…you know, braces, kinky hair, big glasses. Seventh grade, you know. Then her new senior picture: radiant smile, beautiful long hair, big blue eyes, no glasses. That was good for a lot of laughs, including our daughter’s. Well, the teacher walked in. She took one look at those pictures side by side and she said, “La miracle!” The miracle.

I’m Ron Hutchcraft. and there was a reason our daughter could laugh with her friends at that seventh grade picture. She could say, “That was me, but that’s not me anymore!” And that’s the exciting testimony of millions of us about the things in our past that we are not proud of, “That was me, but that’s not me anymore!” All because of Jesus and His death on the cross to erase our sins from God’s book.

The Bible talks about some folks in ancient Corinth who were in big trouble with God: sexually immoral, people with other gods, greedy people, gossiping people, thieves, cheats. But then it says, “That is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Corinthians 6:9-11 ). When you give yourself to Jesus, He applies what He did on the cross to your sin, and who you were doesn’t matter anymore. You are, in the Bible’s words, “a new creation in Christ” (2 Corinthians 5:17 ).

I would encourage you to go to our website and learn how to begin a relationship with Jesus. It’s ALifeThatMatters.org.

This radio program references: 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 ; 2 Corinthians 5:17