IF ANYONE IS IN CHRIST, HE IS A NEW CREATION

 

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Today's devotional reading for: Thursday, Jan 28, 2021 A New Nature Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. — 2 Corinthians 5:17 Can the leopard change its spots?  Can the Ethio­pian change his skin? Of course not.  No more than human beings can change their nature; but that is pre­cisely what Christ does.  He doesn’t merely change our outward behavior; He changes our nature.  He comes within us and plants therein a new man and a new nature—a new creation created by God—a new you. In Christ, we now desire things we didn’t desire before.  Christ did that to me.  God placed a screw­driver in my “wanter” and turned it upside down, and to my utter amazement, I now wanted things I had never wanted before. Charles Spurgeon said that if you were to take a hog out of the mud and the mire, out of the trough and the herd, and by some magic wand transform him into a prince sitting upon a throne, he would not be changed as much as when God Almighty by His grace transforms a depraved sinner into a prince of the Royal Realm.  He is now a child of the King of kings, living in a dominion that has neither end nor limit of extent. Question to ponder: How can your new nature be nourished today?

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