2 Corinthians 5:17 reads, "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new."
There's a popular saying that the definition of insanity is to keep repeating the same behavior again and again, but then expecting different results. If we continue to conduct our lives the same way hanging with the same people and doing all the same things then we will continue to have what we currently have, but how many of us realize that God is trying to get something new to us? He's trying to get us a new mind and a new outlook. He wants us to have a new perspective.
We say we want to change, but what are we doing to evoke that change? We say for example, that we'd like to lose weight, but we don't change what we eat or our level of physical activity so we must ask the question do we really want to lose weight? Every change that we want will require us to go through a process and every process will have its good and its bad, but we must accept that in order to change. We must be processed by submission to the power of God.
We approach every relationship the same way too-including our relationship with God. We treat every new beau the same way. We look in the same places for our good thang. We act the same way with the new person as we did with the last. We treat our family members the same way. We go to work and perform at the same level and wonder why we do not experience promotion. We go to church the same way.
Actually, I'd even argue that we lower the standard of God in our lives and begin to just except anything for ourselves. Elder Larisha Jones told us yesterday how important the banner or the standard of God is. As long as we can see the standard we can prevail in battle. When the standard is lowered we begin to go back to our own old ways and we forget the new that God has for us.
We need to stop. Just stop. Concentrate on the words of this scripture. If any be in Christ, he is a new creation. Our old things are behind us and all that is before us is new. So we must find ourselves in Christ. Not in a person. Not in ourselves. Not in our own world, but in Christ. When we find ourselves in the secret place and in the Word and in a place of worship and praise then we will recognize that we have all things new new. We have a new walk. We even talk differently. We treat God differently. We have confidence that He will complete the work that He started in us.
God is a good God and what I like about Him is that when He gives me my new, it's just mine and all mine. I'm not borrowing someone else's new. What God has for me is just for me and I am thankful and grateful for all that He has in store for me.
In God is the only place where brokenness is newness, where falling is a new beginning and where void becomes a testimony. My God is beautiful in every way and He is teaching me my value and my worth. He is restoring me. He reminds me of the power that He put inside me. He reminds me of how He has always been right here with me never leaving me nor forsaking me. He is asking me to share with you that He has something new in store for you. He wants to make all of your rough places straight. He wants to remove the spots and the wrinkles. God wants to rescue you from sinking.
Today commit to God's new new for you. Commit to reading the Word and to hiding it on the tables of your heart so that He can abide in you. Commit to speaking the word of life over your own life so that you can abide in Him. Ask Him to create a clean heart in you and to renew a right spirit within. Ask Him to make it so that you will never be the same.
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