Disappointments help us understand each other

Don’t forget where you used to be. It will give you insight into how to truly love the people who are still there.

In those days you were living apart from Christ. You were excluded from citizenship among the people of Israel, and you did not know the covenant promises God had made to them. You lived in this world without God and without hope. But now you have been united with Christ Jesus. Once you were far away from God, but now you have been brought near to him t…