INSPIRATION (Giving direction to your day) - OLA AINA

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Text: “Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.” Rom 6:4

One major striking revelation of the new creation man is that “...All things has become new”. I just realised today that this scripture never grows old. Even if you became a believer fifty years ago it’s as applicable as the person who answered the altar call today. This newness is a state of our human spirit. We never grow old out of it. One major danger in the life of a Christian is to become stale in our perception of who we are in Christ. There is newness in your spirit that is real every day, every hour, every minute and every second.

When God looks at you he does not see anything in you that have connection with the “old”, whatever that could be in our individual lives. One of the strongholds in the life of many is the stronghold of the past. There are people held down by a sexual abuse, physical abuse or verbal abuse in the past. This has literally held so many hostages all their lives. In Christ “...All things have become new”, why do you have to keep running your life looking at the rear mirror. Little or no progress will be made running our lives with the eyes on the rear mirror. The image of the negative past is a prison house for the future. In 

Christ the prison house is broken. God has declared all things new.

It’s one thing for God to see us one way but another thing entirely for us to see ourselves in the same way. The life of a believer gets stronger, productive and stable as we acknowledge everything that is good in us. “That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.”Philemon 6. We don’t grow by acknowledging things that are wrong in us. In Christ we acknowledge what is good to grow.

PRAYER:

The prison houses of the past are broken over my life. I am free. All things have become new for me.

LEARN MORE: Col 3:10, Gal 6:15