Encouragement for your walk with God

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“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; The old has gone…”

-2 Corinthians 5:17

Gone

Can the old truly be gone?

When I think of the old, sin and shame come to mind. It’s the old life…the old man or woman that once lived selfishly without knowing God. But when we’re found in Christ, we no longer desire to live the old life. We actually become new creations in Christ. It’s remarkable how God restores us to himself and we become children of our heavenly Father. There’s a transformation that takes place in our hearts and our souls; we are set free to live a new life.

Our sin and our old way of living is gone. It’s dead. Jesus removed it from us when we believed! There is no distance that can be measured from east to west, therefore it is completely removed. Hallelujah!

“As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us” (Psalm 103:12 ).

It’s important to remember that just like the sunset in Gone our old life has set and is gone. This has happened so that we can rise again with a new life just like a new day!

New Creations

As new creations we have access to Father God through Jesus by the Holy Spirit. How incredible that we can live a new life because the old life is gone! We are free indeed and when we truly understand God’s forgiveness and encounter his love, then we can truly live as free creations! The old does not have to hold us back and sin does not have to shame us anymore. Through the help of the Holy Spirit we can forget the past and press on looking to Jesus for now and for the future.

“Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith” (Hebrews 12:2).

Jesus has forgiven us and will always cleanse us when we repent. However, being new creations is not an excuse to sin , but an opportunity to live a new life. As Jesus said, we can, “Go and sin no more.”

“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just, to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” 1 John 1:9