6-25-19 Crippled by the Past?

Daily Devotion: Crippled by the Past? - By Greg Laurie -
 
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. -2 Corinthians 5:17
 
On the television series Fixer Upper, which ran for five seasons, Chip and Joanna Gaines would choose an old house in Central Texas and give it a new beginning. Sometimes the house was for a young couple getting their first home, and sometimes it was for a retired couple looking for somewhere new. Joanna, the designer, came up with amazing plans, and her husband, Chip, the builder, implemented them. When they were finished, it was hard to believe that it was the same house.
 
Have you ever wished you could start over again, maybe in your marriage . . . maybe in your relationship with your children . . . maybe with friends? In a way you can, because 2 Corinthians 5:17 says, "If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new" (NKJV).
 
As the J.B. Phillips translation puts it, "For if a man is in Christ he becomes a new person altogether-the past is finished and gone, everything has become fresh and new."
 
God can do that for your life. You say, "It's messed up. It's broken down. It's falling apart."
 
It can become new and fresh in Jesus Christ. It tells us in 1 John 1:7, "But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin" (NKJV). Notice it says all sin-not just some sin.
 
You, too, can have a new beginning. It can start now. It doesn't matter what time of the year it is. It can all change because of the blood of Jesus Christ. You don't have to be crippled by your past anymore. You can put it behind you

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