2 Peter 3:3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,

Yesterday I witnessed to you my first change. My angry disappeared without any effort on my part whatsoever. My contemporaries would be right to judge me and say I had not changed. Anger is a responsive reflex condition. It was only one of many things within view of the life I lived. I still suffered from many of the personality traits of a lost soul.

Scoffers look at those who proclaim change of heart and declare, “You are no different than I am.” In their eyes it is true. What they fail to understand is that in the eyes of God He sees the Son whom He sent to be a sacrifice to ransom my soul. One change does not reflect a life lived for Christ. It is only a beginning.

Look at anyone who is standing still. Does one step tell you were they are headed? No, of course not. Neither does a word spoken necessarily reflect a heart that is newly changed. It is in the process of discovering what has changed. It is all new and the mind has not yet recognized these changes.

Growth in Christ takes time. Like babies just learning how to walk we will discover our feet are unsteady and we will trip from time to time. Others will see that and scoff at us and say, “See he is no different.” They are right from only one perspective. They cannot see our hearts or our intentions. They do not see the path before us that we only know by faith.

It is an early mistake to say I know where I am going. As new creations we are told; “Go to a place I will show you.” This was as God spoke to Abram. Knowing what we will have to encounter on the way will force an infant to make choices they are not mature enough to make.