When God saves somebody, He does much more than turn a sinner into a saint, or a bad person into a good person. The change is far more drastic than that, for He takes a dead person and makes them live! Contrary to what we often hear, we were not drowning in our sins; we’d already lost the fight. We had long since drowned and sunk to the bottom, yet Christ in His mercy raised us from our spiritual death. He didn’t rescue us from potential death, but delivered us from a death we’d already experienced. He brought us from death to life, from darkness to light, and from hopelessness to salvation.

You see, if we were not 100% dead in our sins, then God would not deserve 100% percent of the glory for bringing us back to life. But since we were fully dead, and now are fully alive in Christ, He can rightfully receive every bit of the praise for this miraculous change. It wasn’t a partial transformation; it was complete.

"But if any man love God, the same is known of him."

                              -I Corinthians 8:3

When somebody is alive, you can usually tell. Without even thinking about it, you can look at them and know immediately that they are not dead. So it should be in our lives, that when we come in contact with the world they immediately notice something different about us. Perhaps they don’t understand the concept of spiritual death and life, but they can sense a difference in us when we are around them that is unlike anything they’ve ever felt before – whether it’s the things we say, the way we act, or even the smile on our face. There should be no need for speculation.

While our human nature usually doesn’t want to be singled out as being different or “weird”, the Lord never promised His children acceptance from anybody other than Him. In reality, how can the living mix in with the dead and not be noticed?