The world as found right here in S. Idaho is truly winter.   Church is cancelled, schools have been cancelled for the past three days, my daughter’s car won’t start and jumping it yesterday wasn’t going to start it either.  Today I will get a new battery and install it.  The only issue is that it is suppose to snow several more inches today and maybe turn to ice rain later on.  I write this because this morning I was working with God regarding how a new creation deals with all of this?  I know my old person would be calling someone for help but now I know I can give the help that’s needed.  This just means the new creation doesn’t panic with mechanical problems like he use to.  But, I found myself wanting to step into doing God’s work as I help my daughter.  God was reminding me about His role and mine.  I’m good with that so I’ll take care of the battery and let God do His part with my daughter.

There was something else this morning that really stirred me.  In the book: The Nature of Freedom I found myself being exposed to continued new awakenings.  The part I’m now processing is called:  “What the Cross means for you and me”.  I’ve always heard that Christ is the bridge from God to us.  I understood that as being what I walked over to get to God–it was like a path or road.  The problem with this mental picture was that the old Earnie was always the one walking over the path.  Today, however, I saw this picture differently.  Yes, Christ is the pathway, but He is also the person walking across the path.  He is within me and He is what God sees as I come to Him.  Once again, this isn’t a new message to me, but the reality of this is new.  I for the first time saw myself coming to God and God seeing me in Christ, not seeing me in sin.

Here is the beauty in this for me–When I go to my daughter’s to help, I’m not taking the incapable Earnie who couldn’t do any mechanical thing right.  I am going as new Earnie who will use what he knows and get help from there.  That is such a simple shift, but it is totally freeing for me.  To God be the Glory!