God’s Writing 6: Transformation
The gospel has sometimes been truncated in an unhelpful way. It is sometimes told as if it ends with the forgiveness of our sins, the cancelling of our debts, and declaration of our acceptance by God. All of this is true, but it isn’t everything! It leaves the impression that we are saved and ready for Heaven so we might as well just sit back and wait for the next bus. It rightly emphasises that we were in the wrong, in debt to God, and that this dishonourable past is now blotted out, but it fails to describe the riches that are credited to us on account of Jesus. The gospel is not only about forgiveness – it is also about transformation. So far in this series we have seen God writing in creation, in providence, in revelation, in judgement and in forgiveness, but we need to see that God writes in transformation. In the first post of this series I discussed the conscience and the moral standard that is written on our he...