2015/09/23 – Devotional
Daily Living Devotional: How Jesus makes you new
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!
— 2 CORINTHIANS 5:17
British businessman Lindsay Clegg told a story about a London warehouse property he was selling. The building had been empty for months, and vandals had badly damaged the doors, smashed the windows, and thrown trash all over the interior.
As Clegg showed the property to a prospective buyer, he repeated incessantly that he would have the structure repaired. “Don’t worry about the repairs,” the buyer told him. “When I buy this place, I’m tearing down the building and constructing something completely new. I don’t want the building; I want the site.”
When we come to Christ, we’re much like that lot with an old warehouse on it. Because of our sin, we’re in a dire spiritual condition. And often our temptation is to make all the right repairs before we give ourselves over to God by placing our faith in Christ.
But the truth is, God doesn’t want our repairs. He wants our site. He wants to take us just as we are and build something completely new. So don’t feel like you have to clean yourself up to come to God. Instead, trust in Jesus to make you new!
** Prayer Challenge
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Ask God to fill your heart with the truth that in Christ, you’re made new!
This comment is in reference to the devotional on How Jesus makes you new. What I have gather from reading this devotional was no matter how we are or what we look like all God wants from us is to come to him for anything without being that perfect Christin & to turn whatever is ailing us over to God. God wants us to learn his way of living & not rely on our own beliefs. Thank-you Pastor Mike for this beautiful devotional, it truly did lift my spirits up. Bobby W.
Very nice devotional today.
Mike Jr.