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1 Corinthians
Listen: 1 Corinthians 15: 9 For I am the least of the apostles, and I am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted God’s church. 10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not ineffective. On the contrary, I worked more than all of them (and yet it wasn’t my doing, but it was the grace of God, which was with me, that did it). 11 So whether it is I or they, that is what we preach, and that is what you believed. (EHV)
哥林多前书15:9-11: 9我原是使徒中最小的，不配称为使徒，因为我从前逼迫神的教会。10然而我今日成了何等人，是蒙神的恩才成的；并且他所赐我的恩不是徒然的。我比众使徒格外劳苦，这原不是我，乃是神的恩与我同在。11不拘是我，是众使徒，我们如此传，你们也如此信了。
你也许会说保罗对自己的过去从未释怀。想象一下吧，他曾经逼迫上帝的教会。因为他，有的基督徒死了。当有人用石头打死司提反的时候，保罗却在看守那个人的衣裳，幸灾乐祸地怒目而视。他接下来说：“然而我今日成了何等人，是蒙神的恩才成的。”成了什么？一个被上帝救赎的孩子，一名上帝国度的圣徒，一个义人，不是依靠自己的好行为，而是因为他披戴了基督的义。他甚至成为一名使徒，被上帝拣选去建造他曾经残害的教会。
永远也不要认为上帝无法改变你。首先，他已经改变了你。他改变了你在他眼里的模样。在他眼里你不再是曾经的罪人或依然的罪人。他看你如同圣徒，你披的袍子被羔羊的血洗白了。你要去的地方是天堂，不是地狱。你受到的是祝福，而不是诅咒。你是上帝的孩子，不是魔鬼的。
永远也不要认为上帝无法改变你。如果你相信耶稣，他就已经改变了你。你仍然会因为生命中的罪而挣扎，但你是在挣扎，你并没有妥协。事实上，你对自己的罪感到嫉恶如仇，这也是为什么你的罪让你感到如此糟糕。难道你不明白这是上帝的恩典在你里面动工吗？
“然而我今日成了何等人，是蒙神的恩才成的。”成了什么？我是上帝的孩子，上帝眼中的圣徒。
祷告：仁慈的耶稣，复活的主，唯独依靠恩典我才成为今日的我！谢谢你救赎了我，让我成为你自己的，并让我披挂了你的义。请继续靠着你的恩典在我里面动工，我将用我的生命来荣耀你。阿们。
You might say that Paul never got over his past. Imagine, he persecuted God’s Church. Christians were dead because of Paul. He held the coats of the man who stoned Stephen, gloating in his not-so-righteous anger. And then he says, “But by the grace of God, I am what I am.” Which was? A redeemed child of God. A saint in God’s kingdom. A righteous man, not by his own works, but because he was clothed with the righteousness of Jesus. He was even an apostle and chosen by God to build the Church which he tried to destroy.
Don’t ever think that God can’t change you. First of all, he already has. He has changed who you are in his eyes. He sees you, not as the sinner you used to be and still are. He sees you as a saint whose robes have been washed in the blood of the Lamb. You are heavenbound and not hellbound. You are blessed and not cursed. You are a child of God, and not a child of the devil.
Don’t ever think that God can’t change you. If you believe in Jesus, he already has. You may still be struggling with sins in your life, but you are struggling. You have not given in to them. In fact, you hate sin with a passion, which is why your sins make you feel so terrible. Don’t you see that this is God’s grace working in you?
“By the grace of God, I am what I am.” And what is that? I am a child of God, a saint in God’s eyes.
Prayer: Gracious Savior, risen Lord, by grace alone I am what I am! Thank you for redeeming me and making me your own, and for clothing me with your righteousness. Now continue to work in me by your grace so that I will glorify you by my life. Amen.