QuickThoughts: Never a Goat

No one who is born again was ever a goat; you were always a lamb, lost for a time until the Good Shepherd found you!

Even while we “were dead in [our] transgressions and sins,” even as we “walked according to the course of this world,” we were still sheep.

Even as we were “doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath,” our loving Shepherd still sought us out as sheep for His flock.

📘 But God, being rich in mercy because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

Ephesians 2:4-7

While our old nature (as children of wrath) restricted our free will to choose only evil, God has made us alive in Christ by His grace, through the faith He has granted us.

📘 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not of works, so that no one may boast.

Ephesians 2:8-9

We now have a new nature, a new heart, and a restored mind, capable of loving God, of seeking Him, and of doing good works, none of which were possible as a lost sheep.

📘 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.

Ephesians 2:10

Rejoice, brethren! We once were lost, but now have been found! God has prepared good works for us to do and He has provided every blessing necessary to do them for His glory.

Go serve your Shepherd and King today.