May 3, 2019
My Dear Brothers and Sisters, I greet and bless everyone in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord. The blessed word that God has given for you today is from the book of 2 Corinthians 5: 17, “Therefore if any man is in Christ he is a new creature. Old things are passed away, behold all things become new”.
My Dear Brothers and Sisters, from the above context we come to understand that God expects a change in our lives. We cannot live the same life as we have lived in the past. Some of you are always murmuring about your low income or lamenting that God has not shown any favour to you. Or maybe you are not able to meet your ends successfully therefore you are always grumbling over one thing or other. God expects you to be faithful in whatever you are doing. Whether any one watches or not, God is watching your hard labour that you put into. Only God can honour you. Only God can fill the treasures of your storehouse. Make a renewed person in your life. Submit your self before God in order to be made a new creation.
My Dear Brothers and Sisters, the above verse is a very special verse as it serves as a continual reminder of our new life in Christ. This verse depicts how God miraculously delivers a person from the darkness and transforms him into a Christ like being. Therefore if any man be in Christ means-to live by faith and to live in Christ, being born again. The man as a result becomes a new creature, a new creation. Thus the old things of his life namely his worldly life of earthly standards passes away from him and he becomes a new person in Christ. For the love of Christ controls you once you are born again. Christ died for all, that we might live in Him and might no longer live for ourselves. But that we might live for Him alone.
My Dear Brothers and Sisters, to be in Christ or be a new creation are when you are in the process of sanctification. Sanctification is allowing old sinful ways to die, rather than letting them continue. Being a new creation means desiring a relationship with God rather than gratifying selfish desires. Hence if you are willing to change and live a faithful life before the eyes of God, then God will cleanse you of all your sins and heal you of all your disease. Only if you are healthy you can live peacefully and joyfully. Today God wants to bless you with unlimited health. It is God who arms you with strength and makes your way perfect.
God bless you.
Prayer:
Our loving heavenly Father, we thank You for this blessed day. Lord help us to be a new creature in Christ. Teach us to give up all worldly pleasures and live a life pleasing unto God. May we inherit the nature of Christ. Cleanse us from all sinful nature and focus our attention to set our mind on the things above and not on things on the earth. Grant to us a healthy and peaceful life. In Jesus name we pray.
Amen.
