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Anyone who belongs to Christ is a new person. The past is forgotten, and everything is new.
Scripture taken from the Contemporary English Version © 1991,1992, 1995 by American Bible Society, Used by Permission.
If you know anything about me, you know that I love to take old pieces of clothing and repurpose them into new garments. I cut around holes and stains… I pick out the best parts of the garment… and I make something fresh and new that often barely resembles the previous piece – if at all. You might see a jeans pocket here or be able to discern a t-shirt there. But generally, the former “life” of the garment is totally forgotten. I am somehow able to see beyond a discarded piece of clothing and find the good that still lies there… and to restore it to something clean and up-to-date.
As people who have committed our lives to Christ, we are like repurposed garments. All of the old excuses… our stains, our sins – our past – are exactly that… in the past! God has seen beyond those things that wore us down and made us tired and unlovely. He has cut out the best parts and fashioned them into something totally different – and often unrecognizable. Some of us just needed a little sprucing and updating… others needed a major overhaul. But in the end, we are all new creatures… and Jesus Christ is the King of repurposing!
So the next time you start to make excuses… when you begin to say that God can’t use you or won’t want you because of this or that – your past mistakes or a present flaw in your makeup – remember these repurposed garments. Let Jesus put His creativity and power to work to design a totally new you… one who is fresh, pristine, and beautiful in His glory. If you don’t yet belong to Jesus, this should be reason enough to choose to live for Him. You have the opportunity for a clean slate… a new beginning…a chance to create a completely different life!
Doesn’t this sound exciting? Wouldn’t you like to change your “old garments” for new ones? Do you truly get it that this is possible in Jesus Christ? Isn’t today a great day to change your wardrobe and lose the excuses?
©2013 Debbie Robus
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