Bible Verse of the Day Saturday, January 27th, 2024

Isaiah 43:25 I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions, for my own sake, and remembers your sins no more.

God does make it possible to restart things and get them right. When we accept salvation through Christ, we become entirely new creations! The old has passed away, and all is new. Only He can make this possible. In 2 Corinthians 5:17, the apostle Paul wrote, "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come, the old has gone, the new is here!" That is excellent news; if we are in Christ Jesus, the old person has died, and we are a new creation. In Christ, we are new beings under the leadership and direction of the Holy Spirit, who leads, guides, and directs our every step.

To be the new creation God desires, we must be "in Christ." The phrase "in Christ" or "in Christ Jesus" refers to the state of believers. If you are a born again, washed in the blood, follower and believe, then you are in Christ! If you have asked God to forgive your sins and professed your faith and decision to follow Jesus with your life, you have experienced salvation. Paul uses this phrase frequently to speak of the believer's spiritual relationship with Jesus.

2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come. The old has gone, the new is here!

Believing in Jesus is the reason we stand before God justified despite our sins. As Christians, we have neither earned nor deserve eternal life with God and the forgiveness of our sins, though we have both. That's the grace of God. We have them because of Christ and what He did for us.

When we answer the calling of God, He adopts us into His family. The blood of Jesus covers our sins! Paul tells us in his letter to the Church in Galatia (Galatians 3:28) that we become one in Christ Jesus, brothers, and sisters in the faith. If a person truly believes, he or she will repent, resulting in reconciliation with God. Our relationship with Him changes; it is entirely new. We no longer look at life the same way as before our salvation. Now, we view everything from the eternal perspective of God, His Word, and His Kingdom. We no longer look upon other people or our lives as before conversion. Our motives change, our thoughts change, our actions change, and our characters change. We now seek to serve and please God in all we do. Serving God will be our highest priority in life, and those we encounter will notice that. We will be more vital witnesses to the Lord.

Satan tries to keep us from knowing we have experienced salvation by reminding us of the sins we committed, attempting to make us feel guilty. He could say something like, "Remember when you did that thing that the Bible says is evil? Nobody can forgive you for that. It wasn't something Christ would do, so God doesn't want you anymore." When Satan tries this ruse, we need to remind him that the old had passed away when we came to God. We have been justified and made righteous through the blood of Jesus by the grace of God.