“In Ignorance”: That Is A Place I Do Not Want To Live

Like obedient children, do not be conformed to the desires that you formerly had in ignorance.

So we were conformed to our desires, which were lived in ignorance before the coming of the Lord Jesus.  Ignorance is a very interesting idea in the Christian faith.  What are we guilty of before our Father in heaven if we are living in ignorance?  How do the consequences of judgment press upon us when our ignorance has been enlightened by the light of our Lord Jesus Christ? 

“Ignorance” is like another country where we lived before we, the readers, came into the Kingdom of God.  I like how Peter has not automatically judged the ignorant, unlike many in the church today.  The ignorant are as hell-sent as the worst criminal.  Yes, well, that is one of those points of the faith that troubles me the most.

Ignorance, living there is living in a realm where we did not know any better.  The desires we had before, maybe in the light of Christ, they continue to exist as possible ways of living, but something fundamental has changed.  Living in Christ, living for Christ, that changes the ends and the means of our lives.  Because now we know better. 

And there is no going back.