The New You

Blank sheets of paper are always inviting to me, because they represent a fresh start, a blank canvas. Before I ever post anything online, it is usually written in ink on paper first, marked with notes as thoughts come to mind. Every blank page has the potential to be filled with a God-inspired message. Sometimes this is something only for me; other times it is something to be shared.

As a writer with a desire to share inspiration with others, I am excited about the potential of shaping a message to encourage other people. But then there is also the possibility that when I’m done, the page will be filled with a rambling of words that won’t go anywhere beyond the ink strokes that put them there.

Each blank page is a new start; so is our life in Christ. 2 Corinthians 5:17 states:

“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!”

In a notebook, it does not matter what was written on previous pages, just as it does not matter what is in your past. What was written in the past, in your life as on pieces of paper, does not determine what is written on your today. That mistake you made that cost you a friendship in high school? That relationship that was a dead end? That fight with your parents during your college years that resulted in tension that is still there, years later?

In Christ, the behaviors, thought patterns, and seasons of life that cause all of those things are the old that is gone.  Just because you did, doesn’t mean you still do.

You are a new creation, created in Christ Jesus.