New You
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Have you reflected on how you have changed through the years? Have you changed since you first began to follow Jesus? Do you like who you are? Are you satisfied with who you are becoming?
When we become followers of Jesus, we become a new creation in Jesus. When we are in Christ, our old self has come to an end and our new self has begun. We grow and change in our relationship with Jesus. We are new creations in our relationship with Jesus. The new has come.
The Apostle Paul wrote the Corinthian church about this encouragement of being a new creation in Jesus. Paul wrote, “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.” (2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV).
What is the old that has passed away in your life? What has become the new you?
May we disregard the old and embrace the new as we receive all that Jesus has for us in him, and as we recognizing we are a new creation in Christ— “the old has passed away; behold, the new has come.”
A Collect for Friday after the First Sunday of Epiphany: the Baptism of Our Lord: “Eternal Father, at the baptism of Jesus you revealed him to be your Son, and your Holy Spirit descended upon him like a dove: Grant that we, who are born again by water and the Spirit, may be faithful as your adopted children; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.” (Book of Common Prayer, 2019).
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