God does not save you because of how nice and sweet you are! Indeed, Ezekiel says that when God saves you – then you will see how bad you really are! “Then you will remember your evil ways, and your deeds that were not good, and you will loathe yourselves for your iniquities and your abominations.”
There is such a thing as a healthy self-loathing!
When you see what you once were – what you were when you were apart from Christ – then you look back at that and say “Ugh!” “We were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another.”
A healthy self-loathing does not dwell there! When you see clearly what you once were, you should be repulsed by what you once were! But that’s not you anymore!
So you should not remain in that old way of thinking. If our identity is in Christ – if he is our life – then we cannot dwell in that loathing, because our sins have been forgiven and we have been made new!
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