Meditations—points to ponder

The 'lost' must be willing to hear of and recognise their own ruin before they can 

find how to enter a different path—the path of eternal life

 that leads into spiritual formation in Christ-likeness. 

Spiritual formation is not something that may or may not be added on 

to the gift of eternal life as an option. 

Rather, it is the path that the eternal kind of life should naturally take. 

It is not a project of ‘life enhancement’ to one’s current without God lifestyle … 

rather it is the process of developing a different kind of life—

the life of God Himself—sustained by God as a new reality 

in those who … have confidence that Jesus is the Son of God …

John 20:31 (ESV) — 31 but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in His Name.

... and are caught up in Christ’s life, 

in what He is doing by the inward gift of new birth,  …

2 Corinthians 5:17 (ESV) — 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

The old stuff no longer matters 

for here in this new creation is the radical goodness 

that alone can thoroughly renovate the heart.

Dallas Willard Renovation of the Heart—putting on the character of Christ p15

Romans 5:5 (NRSV) — 5 and hope does not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us.