Perseverance paid off for me this morning. As I made my way through the first 98% of today's reading selection, nothing had jumped out at me. Figured it was going to be one of those get-through-it-because-it-is-my-duty days. Then chapter 5, verse 17 rolled into town. "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!" The King James Version is how I remember this from my days in First Baptist Church, Bolivar, MO. 17Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
The verse reminded that because I am "in Christ" I no longer have to continue in those presalvation thought patterns and habits. Will some of them continue to be a problem? Most likely. Will I ever have a day when I don't have a thought or act in a way that disappoints God? Highly unlikely. But as a new creation, I no longer have to be controlled by the "old things".
Praise be to God for creating a new creature in me because the old creature sure needed recreating!
What are your thoughts on today's reading?
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