This morning’s devotional time brought out a new reality for me which I’ve needed to learn/understand. It is nothing new to know that we are a new creation when we ask Jesus into our lives accepting Him as our Savior. We can also make Him Lord of our lives when we surrender our all to Him. Being a new creation has been somewhat of a mystery to me because I still have the temptations of the flesh and why would a new creation have them? If someone asked me this question I would tell them that we are still of the flesh until death and the flesh has its selfishness. Thus, the selfishness of flesh is going to be tempted.

This morning as I went through my devotional time God opened my mind to a piece of understanding I’ve needed. Yes, indeed, I’m a new creation, but the access to the power of this truth is available today for addressing my flesh. The years of abuse in my childhood caused me to DESIRE living without anymore temptations. Temptations and abuse were synonymous terms. I’ve separated them in my mind, but I hadn’t in my daily living. I don’t know what being tempted would be like if I hadn’t been abused. I’d always attributed the fact that my abuse led me into the temptations of today. Awakening to the truth that my flesh would be tempted regardless of any past is real.

Knowing that God is I AM lets me know that no matter the temptation, today I will be able to draw upon His Power to confront it using the armor He gives us as promised in Ephesians 6:11-13. Tomorrow I will do this again. This is the new creation living in the flesh. The power of this is in today. When tomorrow is today it will be available again! I get it now! I grew up never living in today for today had abuse in it. That is no longer true and I can and will live in today for today is where my God and I are with one another. Wow, this truth makes me well up in tears of joy!