Have you ever woke up one day just excited for what may come. Ready for the challenges and the adventure that the day may bring. It is interesting how each day with God can bring something new to our lives. This week we are going to focus on "A New Day" and how that energizes us when we have God in the center of that new day. As I finished reading 2 Corinthians 5:16-21 I couldn't help but think of how God has made me new, from the time I accepted Him as my savior to each day I wake up and live for Him. When I put Him in the center of my life He brings me a New Day to get energized about. I get energized when I think and meditate on His word and when I spend time on my knees praying to the awesome God we have. So as we wrap up this series "Energize" I want us to focus on this idea of "A New Day."
Here are some ways we can look at each day as "A New Day."
-Change the way we see!
vs 16 - "So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer."
Maybe we need to begin how we look at the people around us and for that matter Jesus. When we look at people we know or for that matter we don't know. Do we look at them as just another person on the Earth or do we see them the way God sees them? Maybe if we change the way we see we start to see people for who God has made them. Precious, worth dying for, worth His faithfulness, worth His forgiveness, worth His time, His child. And if they are all these things shouldn't we take the time to love them, to talk to them, to show them who our savior is. We need to have His eyes so we can see His children the way He wants us to.
In your own life look at how you treat others, your parents, teachers, friends, acquaintances, people you know a little or not at all. How do you treat them? Give examples on how you see the people around you?
-Embrace the New!
vs 17 "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!"
As God's children we need to realize that we are new, we have been created for something new, we need to embrace this new thing and allow God to do a work in our lives. If we hold onto the old then we don't allow this new thing to transform and energize our lives.
Do you consider each day a new day? What about your life with Christ is it a new Day or are you holding on to the old?
-Make things Right!
vs 18-19 "All this is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And He has committed to us the message of reconciliation."
Have you ever noticed that when we have conflict in our lives some of us, mainly I am speaking of me here, allow that conflict to fester and even suck the energy right out of me. It becomes something that takes or drains my energy and eventually makes me ineffective. When we think of making things right we need to know that we need to make things right between God and ourselves, and then ourselves and others. God called us to reconcile or make it right with Him and with others. When we reconcile we get energized and it is awesome what God will do when things are right with Him and others.
Who in your life do you need to be reconciled to tonight? God? Family? Friends?
-Accept Our Purpose!
vs 20-21 "We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making His appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God. God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God."
When we make things right with God we are His ambassadors. We are made for a purpose and when we accept what that purpose is our lives start to change. It's amazing that He wants us to be His ambassadors. That is our purpose to live for Him and Him alone. In order to live for Him He must be the center of our lives, the One that Energizes us so that we can carry out His purpose for our lives.
What do you think your ultimate purpose is for your life? Are you fulfilling that purpose? Are you confused what that looks like? Describe what goes through your head when we talk about our purpose for life? What can we do this week to put God and His Purposes at the center of your life?
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