Are we morally bankrupt as we travel along the road to our final destination? The fact that we are represented by Christ suggests that we are making progress towards becoming better people. Acknowledging that we are sinners means that we are confident that we are making progress. We find our appearance to be the basis of our confidence that we are making progress. We can say with confidence that we are better than we were when we first responded to salvation.In other words, our initial experience of salvation may have been skewed by our own judgement, but that doesn't change the fact that it was still a freeing experience. We may not have fully understood the weight of sin that was taken from us, but that doesn't change the fact that salvation is based on grace. You know that our first experience of salvation was in our own judgement misrepresented in comparison to what actually took place. It was experienced as something that freed us beyond anything we had experienced before. Did we really understand that weight of sin that had been taken from us? Its kind of like your first romantic experience. You get all caught up in the emotion of it all. So the basis of our change was not in our understanding of the context of what salvation actually does. The basis was all of grace.Although we may not feel deserving of gifts that are given to us purely out of kindness, we generally accept them without question. This may be because we have been taught to be grateful when receiving gifts, or because we don't want to hurt the feelings of the person who gave the gift. In the case of salvation, which was given to us by Christ, many people of that time had very little personal knowledge of Christ's life. And yet they confessed that they owned that salvation.However, even though we did not fully understand the concept of salvation, we still experienced a sense of freedom in the midst of that mystery. Perhaps we can describe it as the flesh being subdued and nothing else mattering except for the present moment. At the height of our freedom and happiness, the future looked bright from our perspective. But we must question whether we are really growing to a point where we trust our knowledge that all of this salvation is true, or if we are more able to find that mysterious in a more profound way.