I hope this month you have really begun to see who you are in Christ. You are an overcomer, you are the head and not the tail, and you are a new creation in Christ Jesus as it says in II Cor 5:17-21. I love each new season, because it is like a do over. It is another opportunity for a second chance. This new year, or this new morning are opportunites to start fresh. Each day is time to re evaluate where we are compared to where we want to be. If you have a relationship with Jesus, this verse applies to you. If you’ve made Him your personal Lord and Savior, then you are new. Your spirit has been made alive to God, and not only are you a new species of being, you are now the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. This is another scripture that seems too hard to believe. How can I be righteous? I do bad things, I think bad thoughts, I have bad attitudes. We can all says those things. But what is God saying about you? He says you are a new creation and that now in Christ, you are the righteousness of God. God sees us through Jesus. When it comes to our relationship with God, the vertical relationship, we are clean, pure and holy. When it comes to the horizontal relationships with people, and things of this world, we have to make choices to be clean, pure and holy. But because we are empowered by God, filled with the Spirit of God, and have a dynamic relationship with Jesus, our vertical relationship can override the horizontal relationship, and help us to live holy right here on planet earth. So are you new? YES! Are you righteous? The answer to that is Yes too!
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