It's a beautiful day here in this small town! With tomorrow being Mother's Day everyone is super busy! I pray you all have a wonderful weekend!
It was on my heart this morning to share with you how I became a new creation.
*I love the message version of this verse!*
"Because of this decision we don’t evaluate people by what they have or how they look. We looked at the Messiah that way once and got it all wrong, as you know. We certainly don’t look at him that way anymore. Now we look inside, and what we see is that anyone united with the Messiah gets a fresh start, is created new. The old life is gone; a new life burgeons! Look at it! All this comes from the God who settled the relationship between us and him, and then called us to settle our relationships with each other. God put the world square with himself through the Messiah, giving the world a fresh start by offering forgiveness of sins. God has given us the task of telling everyone what he is doing. We’re Christ’s representatives. God uses us to persuade men and women to drop their differences and enter into God’s work of making things right between them. We’re speaking for Christ himself now: Become friends with God; he’s already a friend with you." (2 Corinthians 5:16-20 MSG)
Such a powerful verse! It says if anyone is in Christ they are a new creation! The old things are gone and new things have come!! When I rededicated my life and truly became a follower of Jesus my life was changed forever. The things that I used to do that didn't honor God were gone! I had no desire to do any of it! This wasn't as easy as it sounds, but I believe God never wanted it to be easy. If it was easy to be a Christian then everyone would be doing it! It took work for me to change my life around! The first thing that I had to do was let God help me. As humans most of us don't ever want help because that would weaken us and our pride just won't let us do it. But as Christians we must let go and humble ourselves to allow God to help us. When I did this my life became so much easier! His ways and His will is so much stronger and better than our own. I was so relieved when I knew that God almighty was going to be my helper. Boy was I glad that I did allow Him to help because I couldn't have survived the storms I faced without Him!
The strongest storm I faced in my life as a new creation was having to let my friends go. I love my friends to death, and would do anything for them but in order for me to stay true to God I had to separate myself from the sins I was committing. Now did this mean that they weren't still my friends? no. It simply meant that until I was strong enough in my walk to not fall into temptation that I needed to stay away. This truly hurt me, I became lonely and would wonder why I was doing this. But it was then in my weakness that God swept me up and carried me through it. I became His friend! When God did this I became filled with joy that I couldn't hold in! You see God gave us this life, he sent His ONLY Son to DIE for us so that we could be free from sin. Knowing that God gives us so much makes me want to honor Him in everything I do! My motto is "If it doesn't honor God don't do it, say it, or listen to it." This doesn't mean I'm perfect, I sin everyday! But every time I do I hurt because I know it hurt God. I then pray for forgiveness and ask God to forgive me for my sin! **this is the best part** He forgives me and I am made new again!! He is so amazing!
Thank you for reading this, you will never know how much it means to me! Don't forget to honor God in all you do, and if you proclaim to be a Christian but haven't been changed I pray right now that God will help you turn your life over to Him! Allow Him to change you, you won't regret it! He is not a demanding God, He is a forgiving God. He is our father! He will bless you for your love towards Him and others!
You are loved, you are forgiven, you are blessed!
love His daughter,
Starla Conroy
Photo: taken by me somewhere out west
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