CHANGE

2 Corinthians 5: 17 (NIV)

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a New Creation; the old has gone, the new has come!

NEW CREATION IN CHRIST

Think about creation; there was chaos and darkness until GOD said, "Let there be light and there was light." In Christ JESUS, the darkness and chaos of our life is driven away by the Light of Christ and we become new.  When GOD created the heavens and the earth, He spoke them into existence; GOD speaks newness into our life and we become a new creation. The Light of JESUS obliterates the darkness; the old is gone. 

Do we accept the new creation? or are we so drawn to the old that we can not help but look back? Remember Lot's wife, how she could not resist the temptation of looking back at the burning Sodom. She had been delivered from the darkness and chaos of a sinful world, but she looked back as it burned. DON'T LOOK BACK AT WHAT WAS IN YOUR LIFE, GOOD OR BAD.

Hebrews 12:2 reminds us to "fix our eyes on JESUS, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the Right Hand of the Throne of GOD." The joy that is set before us, is Everlasting life with JESUS. Psalms 121 and 123 remind us to "lift up our eyes..." Do not look down at "de-feet" (defeat), look up into the glorious face of JESUS and be filled with His Light. Walk in the Light as He is in the light, embracing the fact that you are a new creation in JESUS; brand new, made in His image and likeness. Forgive the past by going forth with JESUS into a new life filled with Him Self.

CHRIST IN YOU, THE HOPE OF GLORY