A NEW CREATION!

“Strip yourselves of your former nature (put off and discard your old unrenewed self) which characterized your previous manner of life and becomes corrupt through lusts and desires that spring from delusion.  And be constantly renewed in the spirit of your mind (having a fresh mental and spiritual attitude).  And put on the new nature (the regenerate self) created in God’s image, (Godlike) in true righteousness and holiness.”  Ephesians 4:22-24 (Amplified)

The day we accept Christ as Savior, we become a new being.  Isaiah 61:3 tells us that He took ashes and gave me beauty.  In Isaiah 61:10 it states: “(You) clothed me with garments of salvation, (You) have wrapped me in a robe of righteousness…as a bride adorned with her jewels.”  II Cor. 5:17 says:  “if any person is in Christ he is a new creation.”  In Colossians 3:10 (Amplified): “And have clothed yourself with the new spiritual self, which is renewed and remolded … after the image of Him who created it.”

These verses are saying that we are a new and beautiful creation in God’s sight!  We have a new spiritual self!  Someday we shall even have a new body, a glorified body, and one like Christ’s glorified body.  David is one who realized this when he stated in Psalm 17:15, “I shall be satisfied when I wake in thy likeness.”  Paul tells us in Philippians 3:21:  “(Lord Jesus Christ) shall change our lowly body that it may be fashioned like His glorious body…”

We will be changed as a worm is to a butterfly.  My soul is a new creation, and soon my body will be also.

“Like developing butterflies,

We are to shed the cocoon

Of our sinful nature that we might

Emerge into the beauty of Christ.”

(Unknown)