Titus 3:3-6, At one time we were like them

We all have things in our lives that we are ashamed of in our past. We really don’t want everyone to know the dumb stuff that we have done, and we really don’t like to be remined of it by others. We just wish it would go away and that we would never be reminded of it. In today’s verses, Paul tells Titus that he should remember the stupid stuff that he did in the past while trying to minister to others. He says that he should remember how foolish, disobedient, and deceived that he was before he came to know Jesus Christ as His Lord and Savior. Paul wasn’t doing this to throw it in Titus’s face about how bad a person he used to be, he was doing to remind Titus of how much Jesus has done for Him. We never want to lose track of where we have been or exactly where Jesus has brought us from.

We were all in the same boat, dead in our sins destined to eternity in Hell. Then Jesus stepped in and said, “I will pay their debt.” “I will take their punishment.” “I will die for them.” He didn’t do this because we were righteous or deserved it, He did it despite the fact we were unworthy and a mess. When we accepted Jesus as our Savior, Paul says that we were washed by the Holy Spirit and God’s generosity was poured out upon us. We never want to get to a point in our lives where we look down upon others because they don’t know Jesus because we were once in the same position. We were slaves to our own passion and destined to face the wrath of God for our rebellion, then Jesus stepped in and made a way. We should all be grateful and work diligently to make sure everyone we know comes to know Jesus as we do.