A New Creation
2Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.
I love this verse of Scripture. It has been a home base Scripture for me my many years of knowing Jesus. I love how it conveys no respect of persons here. It says, “if anyone.”
That means no matter who you are, where you came from, what race, gender, socio economic status, language or age, if you were placed in Christ by grace through faith in Him, you are a New Creation. You were made in likeness to be able now to receive the same Holy Spirit who empowered Him when He walked this earth.
I love this language because of how supernatural it is. It is by no means merely religious. It does not say I came to a particular well respected group and decided to live differently on my own just to fit in and be a part. It says I became something completely different from what I was before. It says I can have the same Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead living within me now.
I became a new creation, a brand new species, someone born from above. I am now a heaven born child of God. That’s why the old things have passed away and all things have become new. I was once spiritually dead and unaware. Now I am spiritually alive and very aware!
I remember on that day that Jesus welcomed me and changed me. The drive home was entirely different than before. The sky seemed different, the song of birds seemed even sweeter and I was appreciating things that before were never even in my view or sphere of liking. At one moment I was one way and when He finished with rescuing me and placing me in Him I was someone different. All this was a change from the inside.
This change made things awkward for me and my friends of old. The change was so apparent it made them uncomfortable around me, whereas before they greatly desired to be around me. It wasn’t that I was being religious with them in any way, it was simply my desires had suddenly shifted. The things I once enjoyed with them no longer were delights to me. It felt out of step with who I had become. The old things had passed away and all things had become new to me.
I live in the power of this verse of Scripture everyday as I walk in fellowship with Jesus. How about you? Are you aware of just how much He changed you when He rescued you from your sin and your old self? Did you experience that newness of life where everything began to be different? You see being born again is a supernatural experience that changes who we are. Supernatural New creation reality is one of the many wonders and part of the beauty of the New Covenant.
I encourage you to live today as the glorious new creation you became when you were placed in Christ at your salvation. Live as who He made you, it is what is most natural to you now because it is the power at work within you. Old things are gone, behold all things are new.
