Made New

2 Corinthians 5:16-17

“16 From now on, therefore, we regard no one from a human point of view;even though we once knew Christ from a human point of view,we know him no longer in that way. 17 So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new!”

Once Christians come to faith, we are indwelled by God’s Holy Spirit.  The Holy Spirit begins to recreate us into the image of Christ.  This is known as the process of sanctification.  This process is never complete and occurs over the course of our lifetime.  

If we allow the Holy Spirit to work within us Christians are always in the process of becoming new.  As a result, we are not the same Christian today as we were twenty years ago, and we will not be the same Christian that we are today twenty years from now.

Because of this transformation, our lives change, the way we view other people changes, even the way we know Christ changes.

In God everything old has passed away. 

And we are made new.

May the love of Christ be with you,

Rev. Eric Lanier (Retired)