New and Improved

I remember in my youth, thinking "when I get myself together

 I will be ready to serve God."

Oh how wrong my thinking was.

The truth is, we can't make ourselves any better for God's use.

We are all sinners,

sinners in need of a savior.

When saved, we are sinners saved by grace.

That Savior is Jesus Christ the Lord.

It isn't mind over matter, will power, or even good behavior that saves us,

  ONLY Jesus can save.

Acts 4:12 "...for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we MUST be saved." (NKJV)

Jesus came into the world for that purpose,

to save us from sin destruction and death.

Sin is like a cancer that destroys everything in it's path.

It's presence is a path for destruction.

Jesus, the living word of God is the antidote for sin.

Apart from Jesus there is no getting ourselves together.

 It is Jesus that get's all things in order, makes all things whole, and new.

Give Him your sinful broken life,

and He will forgive your sins and give you a whole new life.

2Corinthians 5:17 " Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation, old things have passed away, behold, ALL things have become new.

We hear often in advertising the term "new and improved."

Though we may not always be able to take that as truth with man.

We can always take God at His word, as the scriptures state in Titus 1:2 he is "God,who cannot lie..."

He makes us a new creation, new and improved.

We need renewed minds that compliment our new man.

Matthew 9:17 "...but, they put new wine into new wineskins and both are preserved."

It is the process of spending time in God's word

that renews our mind.

 We unlearn the world's way and learn to think God's way. 

Romans 12:2 " And do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind."

Let's live life New and Improved.