When you're eating a great chocolate chip cookie, do you stop and think about the flour, or do you simply enjoy what it has become?
When you're watching a sunset, I doubt that you are pondering the various wavelengths of light and how they might be bouncing around the atmosphere before reaching the receptors in your eyes.
When you are listening to someone sing, are you thinking about the years of practice they had up to that point, or simply enjoying someone skilled in their art?
When we're appreciating something beautiful, we often don't think about everything that it has taken to get to that point. We focus on the present, on the masterpiece, and forget about the history.
The same can be true of salvation. As Paul clearly states at the beginning of this, we were dead. We forget that. We're focused on the fact that we're alive in Christ, that we're something beautiful now, claimed by God through the waters of baptism and marked as Christ's own forever, but it's helpful to remember where we've come from, because it makes us all the more grateful when we remember that we were dead, but are now alive in Christ!
In the same vein, when we gather around the throne of grace for eternity, we won't be thinking about what has come before, about our sinful past -- we'll be lost in the moment, lost in wonder, love and praise.
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