NEW MODEL

Have you thanked Him?

Have you praised Him?

Have you made it your priority to agree and cooperate with Him today?

Have you taken that deep breath and listened for what He has for you today?

1 Timothy 2:1 (The Message)

The first thing I want you to do is pray. Pray every way you know how, for everyone you know.

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality.

To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” ― R. Buckminster Fuller

The beautiful part about CHOOSING Christ is that HE does just that!

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! - 2 Corinthians 5:17 (NIV)

The tough part is REMEMBERING that.

Often after accepting CHRIST and this NEWNESS of life we slide back into the old grooves as Peterson says.

Don’t lazily slip back into those old grooves of evil, doing just what you feel like doing. You didn’t know any better then; you do now. As obedient children, let yourselves be pulled into a way of life shaped by God’s life, a life energetic and blazing with holiness. God said, “I am holy; you be holy.” – 1 Peter 1:15-16 (MSG)

Our “new model” needs to be one SHAPED by GOD’S life, obedient to His promptings, His guidance, His boundaries, and His direction.  Our new life has the amazing potential to be one of blazing ENERGY, HOPE and POSSIBILITY!  

Remember…

It IS what God is doing…he is creating something totally new, a free life! – Galatians 6:15 (MSG)

And a FREE life EMBRACES the NEW LIFE!

There is a young man I know, a former atheist, who truly embodies and grasps his newness like no one else I have worked with in the past.  When he accepted Christ after a life of rejecting Him, he accepted with a completeness and fullness that I almost covet.  Even current consequences resulting from past mistakes are attributed to the “old him” and he will not let them deter the NEW HIM from what GOD has promised.

He daily walks and operates in his newness.

It is quite remarkable!

The question my Christ following friends is "do we?"

Or do we allow old thoughts and patterns to dictate our present?

Do we allow old perceptions and old issues with our esteem derail our perspectives today?

Let’s embrace our NEW MODEL!

…if you’re serious about living this new resurrection life with Christ,

ACT LIKE IT.

Pursue the things over which Christ presides.

Don’t shuffle along… be alert to what is going on around Christ—that’s where the action is. See things from his perspective. – Colossians 3:1-2 (MSG)

“The gospel is absurd and the life of Jesus is meaningless unless we believe that He lived, died, and rose again with but one purpose in mind: to make BRAND-NEW CREATION. Not to make people with better morals but to create a community of prophets and professional lovers, men and women who would surrender to the mystery of the fire of the Spirit that burns within, who would live in ever greater fidelity to the omnipresent Word of God, who would enter into the center of it all, the very heart and mystery of Christ, into the center of the flame that consumes, purifies, and sets everything aglow with peace, joy, boldness, and extravagant, furious love.

This, my friend, is what it really means to be a Christian.”

― Brennan Manning

NEW!

I love you all!

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