You were dead. Now, you are alive.

"And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses" (Colossians 2:13).

You were dead. Now, you are alive. This is the miracle of the new birth. It's not something we can do for ourselves. It's the work of God. What we could never do for ourselves, God has done for us - "He has made you alive." Sometimes, we may feel more dead than alive? What are we to do about this? Are we to believe our feelings? or Are we to believe what God says about us - You were dead. Now, you are alive? God says to us. Be what you are. Be what I have made you - "a new creation in Christ Jesus" (2 Corinthians 5:17).