Made New in Christ

          People worry from time to time about how their past may affect their future. Everybody worries about something. It’s one of the things that we all just do automatically. Sometimes it’s something really simple that is easily solved: “What will I eat for lunch, salad or burrito?” Sometimes it can be incredibly messy and complicated: “OH MY GOSH! LIKE, CHAD IS GOING OUT WITH TAYLOR, AND I LIKE CHAD SO THIS IS, LIKE, A MAJOR PROBLEM!” Okay, that was a bit over-exaggerated, but really, sometimes situations like that are troubling for people. But there is one question that really tends to haunt people: “Will everything in my past affect my future? Am I going to end up in the gutter or something like that?”

          Well, I have an answer. If you believe that God loves you so much that He sent his Son, Jesus, down to this earth to die on a cross in your place and then rise again; then you will be saved and spend eternity with God.

Romans 10:9 – “That if you confess with your mouth, 'Jesus is Lord,' and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.”

         

          What some people might be still wondering is, “What does this have to do with my future?” When you have a relationship with God and have confessed your sins to Him and have asked for forgiveness, not one thing that you have done in the past matters to Him anymore.

2 Corinthians 5:17 – “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!”

         

          Do you see it? With Christ, you are a new person. You are no longer that person from the past. With God, we don’t have to worry about what we have done in the past; it doesn’t matter anymore. God just cares about you, not what you’ve done. God will protect us and help us through every situation.

1 John 5:18 – “We know that anyone born of God does not continue to sin; the one who was born of God keeps him safe, and the evil one cannot harm him.”

          
          “Well, if God is protecting me so that Satan can’t harm me, then why does all this bad stuff happen to me?” Well, that’s not what he meant, for starters. When it says that “God keeps him safe, and the evil one cannot harm him,” it means that because we are now part of God’s family, Satan has no power over us. He cannot dominate you or take control of your life anymore. Of course bad things will happen in life! I’m a Christian and a ton of really major bad things have happened in my life in the course of four years. But God uses those bad situations that we face to draw us closer to Him and better our relationship with him. He loves you so much.

2 Peter 3:9 – “The Lord is not slow in keeping His promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.”

          God is waiting for all of us to come to Him. He loves us all so much that he is patiently waiting for all of us.