This morning I am awakened to more about being a new creation.  It all started with my devotional saying that when we walk with Jesus as our Savior, He will bring forth memories from our past that need to be dealt with. These may be troubling ones but He is now with us and will guide us to deal with them through His healing process.  I instantly recalled many He has done this with for me. Then, as I did the piece in the book:  The Nature of Freedom, I was asked to write about God’s Righteousness as a new creation.  I know that God sees me as this new creation due to accepting Christ in my heart where He places The Holy Spirit.  At this point I began my Bible reading:  I Thessalonians 5.  In this chapter the 19th verse says to not quench the Holy Spirit.  I’ve been reading the Amplified Bible where Joyce Meyer adds footnotes at times.  She writes something that clarified a confusing item for me.  Here she writes:  “Many people do not understand that we are tri-part beings:  spirit, soul and body. We are a spirit, we have a soul (composed of our mind, will and emotions), and we live in a body.  Our new birth begins in our spirit, is carried out through our soul and is finally visible to other people through a demonstration of God’s glory in our lives.”

If someone had made a quiz about these details I’d probably passed just fine because the facts I could produce.  If someone would have asked me to write an essay about how all of this manifests itself in real life I would have put facts and not been able to add the manifestation part.  What God awakened for me this morning is that He has seen Jesus in me since the time I gave my heart to Him at the age of 10 or 11.  I have been a new creation to Him since then.  It is only now 56 years later that I’ve begun to truly understand this magnificent reality.

I said yesterday that I had this peace about the relaxed day ahead of me.  In past I would be anxious because when a day like that would come I’d be overwhelmed with temptations and thoughts of my inability to conquer them.  I only saw me dealing with them as the old self. God’s picture of Christ in me was something I didn’t see.  Now that God has been having me write out in the book: The Nature of Freedom, I’m seeing what I’ve always missed.  The old me was dead to God but he was active and alive to me.  I am the one who has been needing to let him die.  I thought my old self would finally die when my body did.  Little have I known that I can let him die now. As I learn more about my new creation I am able to surrender my old self to death. My past can die long before my body does if I am able to take the steps God is guiding me through now.  I’m going to stay on this journey.