New Creation

One of the great delights of scripture study is seeing the same truth in different verses...

"For by these He has granted to us

His precious and magnificent promises,

so that by them you may become 

partakers of the divine nature,

having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust."

2 Peter 1:4

"I have been crucified with Christ;

and it is no longer I who live,

but Christ lives in me;

and the life which I now live in the flesh

I live by faith in the Son of God

who loved me and gave Himself for me."

Galatians 2:20

These two verses tell us just how much we are changed, at salvation.  It is so radical, we go from death, to life.  The precious promises of salvation result in us becoming God's children.  We escape from the power which the rottenness of the world had over us.  When we trust Christ for salvation, we spiritually participate with Jesus in His crucifixion and His victory over sin and death.  Our old self is killed.  It's now dead and we now share in God's nature...we have the very DNA of Jesus in us.  We are new creations and we have the privilege of the indwelling of Jesus Christ empowering us and living in us.  With the power of sin broken and His very life and nature in us, the call is to mirror Jesus in His thoughts, attitudes, and actions. May that be what we strive for, with all out effort, in this new year...to be just like Him, more and more, because He loved us so much in giving Himself for us and because He now lives in us.

One year closer to His return, and one year closer to our transformation being complete...