Let’s redecorate the house.
Top to bottom, from the light fixtures to the baseboard trim.
We don’t want to leave anything the same. We want new windows, new countertops, and new carpet on the floor.
How would it be to slick up the walls and leave the bathrooms alone? Rip them out. All new tubs, tile, and sinks.
Even our HVAC system. Toss it in the dumpster. We don’t want the old one anywhere around.
We want our house to feel brand new.
That’s what God does for us when we come to him.
We ask Jesus to come into our hearts, and we change our way of living.
The weekend parties? Tossed out the door.
Inappropriate clothes? On the trash heap.
Juicy gossip shared? Banished to the wind.
We change the way we dress, where we go, even the words we speak. We no longer use the vulgar expressions we thought so funny when we were mired in the world.
2 Corinthians 5:17 says it exactly like it is.
“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.”
That’s what God wants from us when we accept salvation in him.
From top to bottom, we don’t leave anything the same.
We don’t slick up the outside and leave the inside alone. We clean up our thoughts, plans, and dreams, also.
We become a new person because God makes us brand new.
That’s what God does for us when we come to him.
When God scrubs away sin, we are sparkly clean in him.
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