Therefore, if any man/woman be in Christ, He/She is a new creature, old things are passed away behold all things have become new (2 CORINTHIANS 5:17)
It’s the second quarter of the year already and for many of
us we had resolutions at the beginning of the year. For most people, those
resolutions will be dropped by now for some reason or the other, whether or
genuine or not, for others, its not quite there yet, for others its work in
progress.
I have pointed this out to lead us to a point made by a man
named C.S. Lewis. He said that “No one knows how bad they are until they have
tried very hard to be good”. This is very true, like our resolutions, we try
very hard to do right only to end up in the wrong always. It’s almost as if we
are tied or tethered to something that will not let us be good or let us do the
resolutions that we have set. We see the good we are trying to do but somehow
it is an impossible task to achieve. The best person to explain this concept is
Paul in Romans 7:5-25. If you have the time, please go through it and you will
see yourself in the same mirror Paul was looking at.
Now sometimes we are able to achieve some resolutions by
shear will, or be good in some way but fail in some other ways, the case remains
that we are unable to be all that we want to be. The reason is that we were
never created to be all we want to be. We were created to be what our creator
wanted us to be.
This brings me to the new creature.
When Paul completed Romans 7, He ended with a statement like
this
I am a wretched man, who will deliver me from this “burden”
(body of death)? –(Romans 7:24)
Then He declares, I thank God that in Jesus I have been
delivered. (Romans 7:25)
The first step to being all that you ought to be is to
realise that you do not know what you ought to be because you did not create yourself,
but God created you. God is the Author of your story and your creator. Yes you
might know some things but most times you will be wrong.
He wrote your story way before you were born. Jeremiah 1:5
says
Before I formed thee, I knew thee.
More like saying I knew what you are and will become before
you became it, even before you became a person.
In another part Jeremiah 29:11 God said, I know the
thoughts I have towards you, thoughts of peace(not of evil), to bring you to an
expected end (a future and a hope).
Once we realise this, the next step is to pursue the One who
created you.
Here’s the interesting part here. God has been pursuing you
way before you start to pursue Him. And He has made your acceptance your
choice.
The verse after the text(2 CORINTHIANS 5:19) says that God has been working since His day
of rest reconciling the world back to Himself. He works tirelessly to reconcile
you back to Him. Why? You might ask. The answer is Love.
Yes Love. What kind of Lovesickness will make God go through
(birth, death and crucifixion) just for you.
This Lovesickness is expressed in the message of the Season(Easter)
that just passed.
John 3:16 says:
For God So loved the world that He gave His only begotten
son. That whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting
life.
Yes, that is right, God has been on your case way before you
realised it. He’s been weaving and working through time so that you can be
reconciled to Him.
But to experience God and His love for us, We must believe
in Jesus. This is Salvation, the new birth, being born gain, being reborn,
becoming the new man; Jesus said I am the way, the truth and the life, No
one finds the Creator or comes to Him but by me (John 14:16)
In Conclusion, to be all that your creator wants you to be
(THE NEW MAN, BORN AGAIN, LOVED), start by believing in Jesus.
We started with saying that if any man is in Jesus, He is a
new creature.
Believing in Jesus is becoming a new man. What Jesus does
when we believe in Him is that we stop being the old person that we were, we
are infused with new life (everlasting life, abundant life, I hope to write
about this life in the future).
He becomes our Lord and Saviour, saving us from the
wretchedness Paul talked about and giving our life the true meaning God
intended.
I invite you to become a new man today. Your creator is
waiting for you so He can “love on you”.
He is waiting to make you all He wanted you to be. THE NEW
MAN.
Come and Discover this NEW MAN AND WOMAN.
Come and Discover what it is TO BE LOVED
Come and Discover what it is TO BE BORN AGAIN (REBORN)
