A New Creature

God created us with the ability to choose several things. We must choose if we will serve God or someone else. We cannot choose to make no choice – which is simply a choice against God. Jesus said, “If you are not for Me, you are against Me” (Luke 11:23). God never promises us more than one chance. In His grace He may offer us a second chance, or even more, but it is never guaranteed. 

He created us to be loved and to want to be loved. God loves us more than we can ever imagine. His love is beyond anything we have ever seen or known, and yet His is the only love which can ever truly satisfy our need for love.

When He gives us our new living spirit, He gives us the ability to talk with Him, hear Him, understand Him. Learning to do this well, will take the rest of our lives.

When you choose to belong to God you enter a battle zone like you’ve never experienced before because you gain an enemy more powerful than yourself, called Satan, who will hate you simply because God loves you. But do not let this battle discourage you for God has promised us the ultimate victory in this battle...God, now living inside of you, is far greater and more powerful than Satan (1 John 4:4). He has already won (John 16:33). As you allow Him to, He will change you to be like Him (Romans 12:2). Your responsibility is to get to know Him and you can only do this by reading His word (the Bible) and talking with Him. He will take you along a road filled with adventures, pain, terror, despair, love, and joy beyond anything you have ever imagined as well as indescribable peace.

Being a new creature means God is now able to make us into the unique person He created us to be. We must choose every moment to allow His changes to our lives, and we must also obey His every request of us, every command. Being a new creature also means we are set free from slavery to sin. This does not mean we will no longer sin, but it means we can now recognize sin in our life because the Holy Spirit is now able to point it out and we can hear Him (1 John 1:7-9). God promises He will finish what He started in you, "And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ." Philippians 1:6

*What does the hope of promised completion give you?

*How does this encourage you today?

Prayer: Thank you Lord that You have placed Your Holy Spirit in me to lead me, to show me Your love for me and to give me the power to resist the enemy. I rest in You and I thank You Jesus for Your death and resurrection that reconciled me to You. In Your name I pray, Amen.