Made New

“But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.”

2 Corinthians 12:9-10 NIV

When we come to the point that we recognize our sin and that Christ died to save us then we repent and He begins a work in us to make us new. In that moment we are assured of eternity with Him. That is an awesome thing but it shouldn't be the end. 

We should daily recognize our need for Him and we should long to grow closer to Him. We do that through Bible study and prayer and fellowship with other believers. Daily we have to lay down ourselves recognizing our weakness and allowing Him to be strong through us. 

Some of us struggle with admitting we are weak. Whether we just don't want to acknowledge that we can't do it or that we have too much pride to lay it down but our weakness is the opportunity that allows Christ to shine. He is strong when we are weak. 

It's not my place to judge anyone else's walk with Christ and I certainly can't pretend to know what is in someone's heart but I do know that if I'm growing in Christ then I should gradually begin to look more like Him. I should show "... love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control."Galatians 5:22-23 NIV

I should  be slowly becoming more like Christ. If people look at me and don't see a change then they are likely going to question my salvation. I pray that I continue to mature and become more like Him. Someday we will see fully what we are in Him and understand Him fully until then we have to daily seek Him first. 

“Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.”

1 Corinthians 13:8-12 NIV