If
you had won a prize to have your home completely redecorated, how would you
feel if the prize amounted to someone coming in and merely rearranging your old
furniture?
When
God promises you a new life, He doesn't mean that He'll just come in and
reorganize the "old" you. That would be mere reformation. Instead,
God is in the business of transformation and renewal. His plan is for you to
become a new creature.
We
can't understand our need for transformation without a deep recognition of the
uselessness and deadness of the old self. If we always harbor the feeling that
the old self is not all that bad and can somehow be salvaged, we will be
looking for reformation instead of transformation. In God's process of renewal,
we need to let go of the old in order to grasp the new.
"So
if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed
away; see, everything has become new!"
(1 Corinthians 5:17 NRSV)
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