In the life of every person, there will be a time where he or she has experienced a new life. For many it would be a physical healing, where the person has been healed from a deadly disease and got his life back. This relates to the body. But what is important is being healed spiritually. As the word of God says “Clothe yourselves with the new self, created according to the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.” – Ephesians 4:24. Gaining a new life means putting away your sinful life and accepting the word of Jesus Christ which has the power to cleanse and to make one new. “Put away anger and wrangling and slander, together with all malice, and be kind to one another, as God in Christ has forgiven you” – Ephesians 4:31.
We need to put away our old self of hate, anger, jealousy, pride, lust, malice and all that does not please God. “Clothe yourselves with the new life, which is being renewed in knowledge according to the image of its creator.” -Colossians 3:10. “So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new.” – 2 Corinthians 5:17.
When we give ourselves to Jesus, we are no longer the same again. Jesus gives us a new life through the Holy Spirit. New life is when we live a completely changed life. We are no longer doing what God does not like. Just as Jesus tells the woman caught in adultery, “Go your way, and from now on do not sin again” – John 8:11. And from that day she did not sin. Another incident from the Holy scriptures is about the jailor getting new life, when Paul and Silas were set free from the prison by the power of God. The jailor was ready to change his life asking what he must do to be saved. And Paul and Silas answered, “Believe on the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”- Acts 16:31. The jailer and his whole family believed in Jesus and their life became new.
So, my dear brothers and sisters, let us accept Jesus in our lives and change for the better. “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you may discern what is the will of God – what is good and acceptable and perfect.” – Romans 12:2.
Praise the Lord.
