All of What! 2

2 Corinthians 5:17 – “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!” (NIV)

This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun! If we want to change our life, we have to change our mind first; we have to change what we believe. We will never think about our worldview unless we can sit down and ask, “Now what is the basis for what I make my decisions and how does it impact my daily life? That’s what we’re going to do for a number of weeks. Why? Because, more than likely without realizing it may be operating on an outdated, old-fashioned, out of order faulty or false worldview.

God says everything you’ve ever done wrong is completely forgiven. It’s completely forgotten. Everything you ever wished you hadn’t done is wiped out. It’s starting over. The Bible calls it being “born again.” John 3:1-8 It means you get a fresh start on life, I get to start over, I get a new identity in Christ.

Now, if you are like me you have stepped across the line many times in your life, hurting yourself and others in the process, but now through Jesus we have a new identity. The problem is in our mind, (me, I don’t have one, just kidding!) but I do find myself still playing old tapes.( if you still call them tapes as I do we are outdated) And those old tapes are tapes of things that people told me when I was growing up which may not be true.

We need to get a new view of ourselves, God’s view of us. When the guys in prison come to understand the role we are to play in creation it is an awesome transformation. We need to get a new view of God and a new view of the world and a new view of history and a new view of where are we headed in life and what is the purpose, and what is life all about, and stop playing these old tapes.

Why is that important? If we base our life on a faulty worldview, the results are devastating, not just on us but the culture around us.

Answers to worldview questions often change because of circumstances or they change because of culture or they change because people choose to. We’re shaped by a whole lot of influences in our lives. How can we see them from a Biblical perspective and how can we let the Bible shape our lives? That’s what I’ll be posting in the next several weeks.

How do we let the Bible shape our life? Our minds? Our behaviors?

How can we understand what is going on all around us?

Father we thank You for sending a Savior to redeem us, our Lord Jesus that makes us new from the inside out and past is wiped away. We pray Lord for your guidance as we seek Your will and purpose for our lives as we strive to be more like Jesus. And it is in His name we pray. Amen.

In Christ
Sandy Perry
06/02/09