CREATED ANEW

The new year is a great time to revisit everything Christ has done in and through me during the previous year. I make it a practice to perform a deep personal inventory of where my heart is at concerning my identity as Jesus’s creation, asking myself hard-hitting questions.

Were the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart acceptable to the Lord? Is the depth of my faith more evident now than this time last year? Have I truly been worshipping the Lord with the way I live my life?

Doing that intense self-examination and honestly answering those questions is critical and relevant to where I want to go in the months to come. I don’t want to waste my salvation, nor do I wish to be less than the woman God created me to be for his kingdom.

So, pursuing virtue, godliness and Christlikeness continue to be at the forefront of my heart’s desires. They are the attributes I feel compelled to seek because of what Christ felt compelled to do on the Cross for me in order that I would become someone new and different.

I like being different, even weird, if you’ll allow me to say so, because it means I’m not the horrible person I once was, living my life in a variety of evil ways. Instead, the newness I stepped into when I was born again set me on an incredible course that I long to stay on.

I never want to go back to the former days as an unregenerate person. So, I’ll gladly work diligently to deny my old nature and tell my flesh to die everyday so that I can keep living in the freshness of Christ abiding in me and I in him.

As true believers, the reality of being created anew in Jesus is a promise we need to live in by faith. That because we are in Christ, the old person we used to be is no more and the new creation by his blood has come! Let us go after the characteristics that associate us with the likeness of Jesus and reject who our Lord no longer sees us as. Make the new year a start of something spectacular for yourself as Christ’s new creation.

Holy Father, let me always find my identity in your Son, Jesus Christ, that I would cling to the truths as his new creation and help others to do the same. In Jesus’s name I pray. Amen.

Throughout This Day: Receive and believe the truths of who you are in Scripture, beginning with today’s verse.