A Renewed Life

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What is the importance of a renewed life? How does renewal occur in your life?

There is the old life, and then there is the new life God has in store for you.

We cannot experience renewal of life if we are holding relentlessly to the old life.

Renewal of life is something that God does as we yield our wills to God’s will. A renewed life occurs as we lay down our former way of life and apprehend the life God has for us.

The Apostle Paul wrote the church in Ephesus encouraging them to “Put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.” (Ephesians 4:22-24, ESV).

We put off our old life, which is broken, sinful, and bankrupt, and we are renewed by God. It is God who enables us to be renewed in our life and to put on his new life for us. It is in the new life that we put on the new self, who is created in the image and likeness of God.

May we “be renewed in the spirit of our minds, and put on our new self, created in the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.”

In Christ alone, Robbie

A Collect For Renewal Of Life: “O God, the King eternal, whose light divides the day from the night and turns the shadow of death into the morning: Drive far from us all wrong desires, incline our hearts to keep your law, and guide our feet into the way of peace; that, having done your will with cheerfulness during the day, we may, when night comes, rejoice to give you thanks; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.” (Book of Common Prayer, 2019).

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