Titus 3:3a For we ourselves also were sometimes

I purposely did not finish this verse and left off the list of things that might or might not remind you of a past life. It really doesn’t matter what you were back then before Christ. The important issue is that we left that life behind. I don’t have to spell it out, I don’t have to be specific. You know you have changed. I know I have also, thank God.

2 Peter 3:18 But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.

I have struggled with this verse. Grace growth has been slower than I had expected, slower than I desired. I was at a point where I was beginning to think that perhaps it was going to be something I had to struggle with always. I know what I am and I see things in black and white. That is judgment, pure and simple.

Last night I saw error and I did not pounce upon it with the rod of correction. God showed me the heart of the one speaking and my tenderness in fellowship, my earnest desire to maintain unity and harmony in the body outweighed my need to be right. I saw grace growth.

I’ve been walking with the Lord for a long time. I have no idea why God changes one thing about me and leaves another untouched. I struggle and like Paul in Romans 7, I identify with doing things I do not want to do. Like Paul I thank God.

Today I thank God for what others won’t even notice because they don’t see what is going on inside me. I see it and I know it is grace for grace sake, a gift from God.

Job 4:12 Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof.

Thanks be to God for even the smallest of changes.