At the age of 20, I said the words that sent me on the eternal path to salvation. The life I lived before 20 was selfish; I couldn’t care less about anyone else’s well-being or feelings, I was hurtful, self-destructive, and worldly. It wasn’t until I built a relationship with Christ at the age of 25 that these things truly changed. My nature was worldly until I felt Gods everlasting love for the first time. That love made me want to love in return, it answered questions I’ve asked my entire life, it put a mirror to my soul and defined who I was. At that point, I wanted everyone that was just as broken as I previously was to feel the unending love of God. I wanted them to understand that God created each and every one of us, in His image therefore
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Merriam-Webster defines identity as, “the qualities, beliefs, etc., that make a particular person or group different from the others.” We search our whole lives looking for this individuality, attempting to find the one thing that sets us apart from everyone else. In Romans 1-8, Paul gives us our identity by explaining who we are in Christ. “And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose. For whome He foreknew, He also predestined to be comformed to the image of His son,”. We are set apart, not by our own deeds or our own search but because God formed us in our mothers womb to be like Christ. The answer we search for is in the attributes …show more content…
At the time this was written, the Jews and the Gentiles were on two opposite sides of a judged spectrum. The Jews were overly righteous and judgemental Christians while the Gentiles were the pagans. This isn’t much different from our world today, we have the Christians who feel as if going to church entitles them to a claim to God, then we have the sinners who feel they are not righteous enough to praise God. Romans 2:29 says, “but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, not in the letter; whose praise is not from men but from
Merriam-Webster defines identity as, “the qualities, beliefs, etc., that make a particular person or group different from the others.” We search our whole lives looking for this individuality, attempting to find the one thing that sets us apart from everyone else. In Romans 1-8, Paul gives us our identity by explaining who we are in Christ. “And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose. For whome He foreknew, He also predestined to be comformed to the image of His son,”. We are set apart, not by our own deeds or our own search but because God formed us in our mothers womb to be like Christ. The answer we search for is in the attributes …show more content…
At the time this was written, the Jews and the Gentiles were on two opposite sides of a judged spectrum. The Jews were overly righteous and judgemental Christians while the Gentiles were the pagans. This isn’t much different from our world today, we have the Christians who feel as if going to church entitles them to a claim to God, then we have the sinners who feel they are not righteous enough to praise God. Romans 2:29 says, “but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, not in the letter; whose praise is not from men but from