While every Marvel character has a complicated backstory of some kind, Bucky Barnes is in a league of his own. Sure, Iron Man was a selfish, greedy war profiteer and the Incredible Hulk has some pretty serious anger issues, but the Winter Soldier was a downright villain… a merciless mercenary lacking any kind of moral code as he battled the very Avengers he would one day join.  But that vibranium arm that was once used for evil purposes was now attached to a man who experienced a complete rebirth, and while the Winter Soldier doesn’t possess a perfect past, he isn’t letting that stop him from becoming the force for good that he was always meant to be.

Being “born again” in Christ means that we have become a new creation from the inside out, and that includes the full forgiveness of our past sins that once defined us. We are “Winter Soldiers” no more… and that means we move forward in confidence that He didn’t just deliver us to save us, but He also commissioned us to help reach and save others. Let’s put away the things that led us down paths of regret and shame and start today with a renewed mind that has been set free from our enemy’s brainwashing. The Apostle Paul was once a “Winter Soldier” too… so let’s leave the past behind us, grab hold of His grace with that vibranium arm, and press forward.

Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Philippians 3:13-14

Put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness. Galatians 4:22-24

But they were hearing only, “He who formerly persecuted us now preaches the faith which he once tried to destroy.” And they glorified God in me. Galatians 1:23-24

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