Lemons

Some people like lemons. Some like limes, but not lemons. Some don’t like either. If the lemon is a car, nobody likes it. If you bought a car that turned out to be a lemon from a dealer who gave you a warranty, you could take it back and have it fixed. If you had to take it back 8 times, you would want to trade it for a replacement rather than having it fixed again. Fixing it wasn’t fixing it.

Jesus died for you. That was His payment for you. He didn’t pay for you to simply be repaired, though. He bought a completely new you. Since the time of your rebirth, the proof of your transformation should be increasing. The change was absolute, but the proof is slow coming on days. Don’t make Him settle for repairs, though. Be awesome. Be new.

From now on, then, we do not know anyone in a purely human way. Even if we have known Christ in a purely human way, yet now we no longer know Him like that. Therefore if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation; old things have passed away, and look, new things have come. Now everything is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that is, in Christ, God was reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed the message of reconciliation to us. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ; certain that God is appealing through us, we plead on Christ’s behalf, “Be reconciled to God.” He made the One who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
(2 Corinthians 5:16-21 Holman Christian Standard Bible ®©)