TITLE: OUT WITH THE OLD...IN WITH THE NEW By Suellen Fry 01/05/07 |
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OUT WITH THE OLD…IN WITH THE NEW
Therefore if any man be in Christ,
He is a new creature: old things
Are passed away; behold all things are become new.
2 Corinthians 5: 17
Today as I was cleaning my attic I got to thinking; why is it so easy for us to throw away old clothes and other items we’ve had for years, yet for some odd reason we refuse to throw away those old skeletons we have hanging around in our closets?
We don’t think twice about throwing away those frayed worn out socks, yet we hold onto that old familiar grudge. We throw away old toys without hesitation, yet we won’t throw away a haunting habit that could possibly kill us. Why is this so?
While I do not claim to have all the answers, I do know one thing, we are still holding on. To what? Not sure. Familiarity, pain, habits; all of which by the way, are satans lies. Every Time a soul comes to the Lord, Satan has lost the battle. So what he tries to do is continue with his lies. When I was first saved Satan became angry. He tried to convince me that I could still serve this God and smoke cigarettes and listen to worldly music. He would belittle me with his torturous lies. Sometimes I felt like I was going to lose my mind. There were other times when I felt so close to the edge of insanity. But...something always brought me back.
The power of the Almighty Lord is stronger than Satan himself. I had the strength of the Lord and all his angels inside of me the whole time. All I had to do was remember…. I was a child of God , I always was and will always be. The old self had died when I accepted Jesus into my heart. That meant I was a new creature in Christ. What did that mean? Simply put, satan no longer had a hold on me. No longer did I have to hold on to those old familiar lies. I could let go now. I could clean my closet and snatch those skeletons one by one throwing them to the curb. Now we all know that attic or any kind of closet cleaning takes time. So I had to remove one skeleton at a time. Did this take time? You bet. I’m still working on it. But one day at a time all things become new, because I am a new creature in Christ. Satan’s voice isn’t as loud and my closet is just about cleaned up.
Why do we hold onto our stuff, for so long? Why do we let everything pile up that by the time we are ready to clean our closets we don’t know where to start? I must admit that by the time I was ready to clean my closet, I couldn’t see beyond the over piled skeletons. But I mustered through that pile and I began my closet cleaning. And…you can too. This simple prayer helped me every time I felt overwhelmed.
Dear Jesus,
Please help me to unload my junk. Please remind me that I am made new through you and that I am your child. Amen.
God Bless you through your closet cleaning journey.
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