...and such were some of you. But
you have been washed, you have been
cleansed…
1 Corinthians 6:11
It was the bottom
of the 10th inning of the 6th game of 1986 World Series.
The Boston Red Socks were about to take their first title in 68 years, BUT…with
two outs, first baseman Bill Buckner let a routine ground ball roll between his
legs and the Mets won instead. That little word—BUT—changed everything. When
Moses and a million Israelites stood on the banks of the Red Sea with a furious
army in hot pursuit, they saw no hope, BUT…God parted the sea and they escaped.
BUT is a little word with a lot of
power to change our stories, both good and bad. No matter how things may
appear, BUT can change everything.
Paul made a Top
Ten List of evildoers who would never see God’s kingdom and then wrote, “and
such were some of you.” In other words, most of us have worn labels from that
list: Drunkard. Sexually immoral. Greedy.
Those identities kept us under God’s judgement. BUT when Jesus saved us, He
peeled off the old labels and gave us new ones: Child of God. Righteous. Accepted. When we surrender our lives to
Jesus, He changes our identity and direction. We don’t continue living the Top Ten
List while wearing the new labels He bought with His blood. BUT has power to change the World
Series, to rescue the Israelites, and to change our identities. No matter what
labels you wore in the past, BUT can change everything.
Find yourself on the
list in 1 Corinthians 6:9-10.
Do the labels still fit, or have you let the BUT define you?
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