A New Beginning
The Bible says, “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” Genesis 1:1
(KJV)
God created a perfect environment and man fell to the wiles of the Serpent and
sin.
London businessman Lindsay Clegg told the story of a warehouse property he was
selling. The building had been empty for months and needed repairs.
Vandals had damaged
the doors, smashed the windows, and strewn trash around the interior.
As he showed
a prospective buyer the property, Clegg took pains to say that he would replace the broken windows, bring in a crew to correct
any structural damage, and clean out the garbage.
“Forget about the repairs,”
the buyer said. “When I buy this place, I’m going to build something completely different. I don’t want
the building; I want the site.”
Compared with the renovation God has in mind, our efforts to
improve our own lives are as trivial as sweeping a warehouse slated for the wrecking ball. When we become God’s, the
old life is over.
He makes all things new. All he wants is the site and the permission
to build.
Paul writes: “For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ
died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare
to die. But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being
now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to
God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. And not only so, but we
also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement. Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned” Romans 5:6-12 (KJV)
2 Corinthians 5:17 (KJV) “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he
is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”
Let’s encourage one another in this New Year to be dedicated to telling all we can of the heaven to gain and
the hell to avoid!
Daily Chronological Bible Reading: Genesis
1-3
