Renewal

What if you could start all over again. How  would you restructure your relationships, your marriage, your parenting style, your approach to making a living? What would you do differently? What if I told you, you could start over again? How would you feel?
I know for me it would feel like a weight had been lifted off my shoulders. All the guilt, disappointments and shame of past mistakes would be gone. I would feel free to move, do, and live- to make all things new again.
This opportunity of starting over again is what Christ was talking about when he said for a man to see the kingdom of heaven he had to be born again. The past is forgiven and a new birth now exist. All our errors, mistakes, mess-ups, with all our sins are blotted out before God, who grants us pardon by his grace and mercy, so we can start all over again the right way. We are considered a new man before him, and old things are pasted away.
The concept and experience of renewal is open to all of us through the Messiah, the Son of God. It starts by us obeying Christ as God commanded us to do. And his instructions are found in the gospel of God- the Holy Bible. It is the greatest feeling and experience to be renewed before God.
However, know also, that renewal comes with its' own challenges, due to the fact that we are not in the physical kingdom of God and Christ yet. We still have the challenge of battling our flesh or sin nature that is still present, along with the daily temptations of living in a sinful world. Therefore, we must heed the instructions of the apostle Paul to bring our flesh into subjection to God in order to avoid the trap of sin.
Our renewed spirit must fight continually against the spirit of the flesh to maintain its' renewed state. We are still renewed even in this state before God, but we have to war to keep ourselves on the strait and narrow path that leads to the kingdom of heaven- by faith, hope, and love.


Shalam,
David Zarach