Selfishness to Selflessness

Ephesians 4:28
    “Let him who stole steal no longer, but rather let him labor, working with his hands what is good, that he may have something to give him who has need.” NKJV

    Blessed Redeemer. No one apart from God could take a thief and make a saint. But as we saw in the earlier passages we must take hold of the new life.
    God will not force a thief to give up his trade to learn a new for the benefit of the poor. The thief, having met God, must choose to put away his past to follow the will of his Savior.
    I must remember that although I have been redeemed by God, I must take hold of that gift of redemption and the life that comes with it.