phil 1:1b you are a saint

"To all the saints in Christ Jesus ..." (Phil 1:1b (NIV))
If you had to define what a saint is, how would you do it? Would it be a special person, a person who had miracles ascribed to them, an especially good person, or a person to whom you pray?
In the bible the word 'saint' is used to describe people who are followers of Jesus. If you follow Jesus you are a saint.
The word translated saint means 'holy' or 'seperated from'. It means that the person who is described as a saint is a person whom God has made holy.
The point is not that you are good enough to be saint, but that God ascribes to you the characteristics of a saint, and now our task is to live according to who we are.
Imagine you are tied to another person by a giant rubber band. They are stronger and faster than you so that when they go in front of you, you fall behind and so the rubber band is stretched. What happens now? Because they are stronger than you, you are propelled toward them.
God has made us a saint, and that characteristic of our being is stronger and faster than we are, it moves ahead of our current behaviour, but it propels us forward so that over time we act more and more in accordance with who God has already made us.