Make Me New
I was recently looking at a venue with the intention of holding an event there and I was somewhat disappointed with the setup of the room. I am usually able to look beyond the way something appears at the moment and see the potential in it, but I was having a hard time seeing how this space could transform into what I needed it to be.
It was not until I returned to the room on a different day when the sun was shining and most of the furniture had been cleared out of the room that I began to see how the vision could unfold in that particular space. The prior setup had actually obstructed my view of how that space could really be used. I needed to see the room as a blank canvass, ready to be designed and created into something entirely new and different.
I reflected on how my view of the space had changed when the old setup was removed and I was able to see it in the light of the sun. I thought about how this happens in other areas of my life. God may sometimes show me a vision of how something will be and I cannot conceive of it because I am trying to understand it in the context of my prior experiences.
I realized that even though I have submitted my life to Jesus Christ and now have access to a new covenant with God, I don’t always see myself as a new creature. I still need to make a clean sweep of my preconceptions and view life in the light of the Son who makes all things new.
God is able to transform a seemingly useless, dull life into something shining and magnificent. He can turn an impossible situation into something miraculous. He can take what is cold and ugly and transform it into something lovely. He has done that for me many times over and I know He wants to do the same for you.
Access the promises of God through His Son in your life. See your life in light of the new covenant that God has made with His people. See how He has washed you in His Blood and is transforming you day by day in His glory.
Hebrews 9:11-15 (The Message)
But when the Messiah arrived, high priest of the superior things of this new covenant, he bypassed the old tent and its trappings in this created world and went straight into heaven’s “tent”—the true Holy Place—once and for all. He also bypassed the sacrifices consisting of goat and calf blood, instead using his own blood as the price to set us free once and for all. If that animal blood and the other rituals of purification were effective in cleaning up certain matters of our religion and behavior, think how much more the blood of Christ cleans up our whole lives, inside and out. Through the Spirit, Christ offered himself as an unblemished sacrifice, freeing us from all those dead-end efforts to make ourselves respectable, so that we can live all out for God.
