A Promise to Ponder Volume 3, Issue 38

2 Corinthians 5:17 - 17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

New – new, as respects form, recently made, fresh, recent, unused, unworn as respects substance of a new kind, unprecedented, novel, uncommon, unheard of

Creature - the act of founding, establishing, building etc, the act of creating, creation, creation i.e. thing created, of individual things, beings, a creature, a creation, anything created, after a rabbinical usage (by which a man converted from idolatry to Judaism was called), the sum or aggregate of things created, institution, ordinance

   I may be a little odd, but one smell I love is a NEW smell. New shoes, New car, New clothes, I love the new smell. I have actually been known to sniff a new book or two, after I have bought them of course. I have thought, “What is it about the ‘new smell’ that I love?” I think it’s because that the “new smell” is unadulterated by life. A new car smell, to me, is much better than an old car. The old car has had food spilt, drinks dropped, bodies in and out, and numerous other things that has made the car not smell so good. A new car on the other hand has been washed, cleaned, and kept spotless.

   Let’s take an example from the old and new car, shall we. Our old nature would be compared to the old car, stinky because of the stench of spoiled attitudes, sin itself, rotten desires, and countless other things in our life. We can do many things to try to cover the smell, maybe we hang the pine scent of kind words on our life, maybe we put the Lysol of giving on our lives, or what about the Fabreze of good works, church attendance, or anything else good you can name. The problem with all these “solutions” is that the cause of the smell is still present. All the above mentioned cover and may even temporarily kill the odor, however you are still presented with the same problem of the reoccurring “old nature” smell.

   The question becomes, “How do I get a fresh start, a new beginning, a new clean feeling?” The answer is found in our promise today, GET IN CHRIST. Only Jesus is qualified to clean out, straighten up and put your life on the right track. His blood is the only cleaning agent that will truly wash away every spot and stain. When a person trusts in Christ as personal Lord and savior, He simply makes us into a new creature. Now That’s A Promise to Ponder!!