“New Beginnings”

 2 Corinthians 5:17

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; The old

things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.  (NKJ)

     What was found in this 2,000-year-old message then is the same message that we find today, a life-changing transformation that occurs with receiving the redemptive gift of salvation from Christ Jesus, our Lord God and Savior.  As believers in Christ we share in His promise of eternal life, the forgiveness of sins, and spared the eternal condemnation from God on the day final judgment.  As Christians, we are clothed in the righteousness of Christ and on the last day of this fallen world we will be transformed into the likeness of Jesus and live with our Holy God forever.  What the physical birth of our Lord God and Savior did was it brought Divine Hope into a world lost in a dark sea of evil.  And with this divine Hope comes a new beginning that will continue to get better with no end in sight. 

     When you accept the death and resurrection of Jesus as your salvation, the old life dies on the Cross and you become a new creation.  Your record cleared, your rebellion forgotten, and your new journey begins.  The Holy Spirit opens your eyes to eternal truths you have never seen nor heard—truths that change the way you view life, death, and this world.  Once you were blind but now you can see.  You now discern what is real and what is not, what is right and what is wrong, what is truth and what are lies.  And as your life is being transformed into a life that is acceptable and pleasing to God, your world views, your values, your beliefs, and the temporal things you had staked your life on will change.   You will gain new insight with a new perspective, for the old temporal things will no longer control the way you live.   Instead, your new eternal perspective causes you to focus on the God of Glory—the One who created you.  Jesus came to give us all a new beginning—one that is glorious—one that has no end!

                                                  A Whisper of Hope

The Father sent Me…to shepherd His people; to gather up the lost and to bring them Home.  The world seeks to blind and steal all that you have in Me and then destroy you completely.  But I came to save you, dear child, and to give you a new life that is eternal.  You must trust Me in this, for when you do—you are safe and secure.

2 Corinthians 5:18, 21

All this newness of life is from God, who brought

us back to Himself through what Christ did.  (NLT)

For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that

we might become the righteousness of God in Him.  (NKJ)

                            For we are God’s masterpiece.  

                      He has created us anew in Christ Jesus.

                                                          (Ephesians 2:10)