A New Me

Thursday Matters- March 3, 2022
Everyday Restore

Here’s the deal of God’s good news from 2 Corinthians 5:17; " If anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!”  However that doesn’t mean our flesh isn’t at times screaming for what we found pleasurable in our old life. Only by the power of the Holy Spirit, Who lives in us at the time we receive Christ, can we can truly let the past be the past.  
It’s not what we do, but what God does in and through us that sets us free.  Our “do” is our choice to listen to His voice and His Word.  James 4:4 tells us that if we choose to be a friend of the world we take our stand as an enemy of God. Wow, that’s a truth statement. We may profess to be a Christian, but are we really “saved” when we choose to follow what the world has approved but God calls sin? Christ in us knows the way for us to walk.  We still struggle with sin, but it’s important that we acknowledge sin as sin and then confess, change direction, and allow God to restore us…everyday.