“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!” 2 Corinthians 5:7 NIV
This is a promise for anyone. It doesn’t matter what class, what race, what nationality, what language or what level of intelligence. Anyone can be a new creation in Jesus Christ. This is a promise for anyone who is in Christ. This is not a promise for those who are in themselves, or religious, or in someone or something else. Jesus Christ changes those who come to Him by faith and who are in Christ. We are not “just forgiven”. We are changed into a new creation. It is unfair for us to expect those who are not in Christ to live as if they were a new creation. However, it is not unfair to expect a changed life from those who say they are Christians. Being a new creation doesn’t mean that we are perfect. It means that we are changed, and we are being changed. Who makes us a new creation? This is something God alone can do in us. This isn’t just “turning over a new leaf” or “getting our act together”. The life of a new creation is not something God does for us but in us. Being a new creation is a gift from God received by faith. Living as a new creation is something God works in us, using our will and our choices. So, we must both receive the gift of being a new creation and be challenged to live the life of a new creation. All this is God’s work in us that we must submit to. This reminds us that at its very root, Christianity is all about what God did for us, not what we can or should do for God. God wants to do a new thing in our life. We are not mended but made new which God himself owns as his workmanship. Are you a new creation in Christ?
PRAYER THOUGHT
Lord Jesus, thank You that in You I am a new creation.
PRAYER FOR TODAY
Lord God, as You have made us a new creation, in Christ, we choose to live our lives for You, knowing that our eternal rewards and losses are based on the lives we live from the moment of our salvation. AMEN
I.B.R.A. Readings
Mark 10:17-34
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