Redeemed, Renewed, Reconciled.
 Day to day, we need to dwell with people and deal with relationships.     The word of God in 2 Cor 5 :16 reminds us to regard no one according to the flesh.     It's so easy for us to judge and be critical with one another. Yet we fail to see that we too are imperfect but by the grace of God that He has forgiven us and made us to be in right standing with Him through Christ.     If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away and all things have become new (2 Cor 5:17).     What does this verse mean to us?     We don't literally get transformed overnight in our physical condition and situation.     But it signifies the beginning of a brand new life created by God in the spirit that starts from within, from inside out. God has begun that amazing and powerful work of transformation in the spirit, first putting away for us the curse of sin (which is death) and bringing us into the blessing of eternal life.     And He reconciled us to Himself, and putting...