2 Corinthians 5:17 ~ This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun! ~
Hear ye, hear ye… A new year us upon us… And old one passed away…
Over the last week or so God has been dealing, showing and sharing a few things with me and for me. 2 Corinthians 5:17 tells us that when we come to Christ everything before that point is no longer of matter to him. Everything that we did or didn’t do is wiped away and we become new in him. At that point we are like a new baby and it is up to us what we want to become in Christ.
This is an awesome gift God gives us. Just think GOD has not only forgiven us but he has truly forgotten our sins. Now we all know of reaping and sowing and even thought we are forgiven we still may have to pay the consequences of our deeds prior to coming to God. But that doesn’t mean he doesn’t love us or has not forgiven us.
When God brought 2 Corinthians 5:17 to me I thought ok…. I know this and live in the gratefulness of this gift. But God was revealing something new to me. I had served God for many years (18 years) prior and then I allowed myself to be blinded for a very long time (10 Years). When I came back to God as the prodigal son did (torn and broken) I came back with the memories of what I had done when I served him all those years ago. I started standing on God’s word that says “For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.” Romans 11:29. I started remembering the way God used me and the dreams and desires I had.
My heart started yearning to do the works I had once done. But something was missing, something wasn’t quite right. I wasn’t so confident in it any longer. I felt as if I lost something. As God started leading and using me I was stunned because it wasn’t in ways I THOUGHT I should be used. But I said here I am Lord, if this is where you want me then this is where I will be.
Then a couple days ago the light bulb turned on in my head. A friend sent me a text with a word of God. As I read it I was accepting it but wasn’t stirred by it. I saved it and read it over and over and as I read it God showed me that I was living in the past. A good past, but the past all the same and that he desired to do a new thing in me. The old life is gone; a new life has begun. Talk about a revelation… I was desiring old things.
Since then I now ask God to do a new thing in me, a different thing and if he desires the same old thing also. I want to walk in the here and now of God. Not the remember when of him. So I am now I am looking forward to the New Year. He has heard my prayers and is bringing the desires of my heart to pass. My desire is to do his will and be who he wants me to be. I am truly a new creature in Christ DAILY….
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