Good morning at the mid-week! I was thinking of new persons this morning. Not the new persons that a group leader points out as having never attended. Most of these aren't even new having lived quite a few years before arriving at the group meeting. Infants are new persons, but we don't get to see them for the first nine months. Jesus said that He makes all things new. The question I have today is: Does that happen only once in our lives at the rebirth of the spirit, or does that happen more times?
Well, let us see. God's mercies are new each morning. That is something we need. We are to be transformed by the renewing of our minds; there's another new thing. We will be renewed in body and mind in the resurrection that is to come. That sounds like a lot of new going on there. Each day we wake we call a new day. One day Jesus will create for us a new heaven and a new earth. Yes, I guess the evidence points to Jesus making all things new. Of course, we already believed that by faith. New is no surprise to us.
What does surprise, though we know in faith that it should not, is our new person we see each day. Sometimes the progress seems slow, and other times we think maybe we have taken a step or two backwards. However, we trust the Holy Spirit in us that indeed we are becoming new persons. Once in a while, a reaction or statement that we know was different back in the day comes from us. Change happened without our direct involvement. Yes, you and I are new persons in Christ, but we cannot see all the new yet.
Have a wonderful new and more Christ-like day!Bucky
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