In our second devotional, focusing on transformation, today we're exploring the ways in which God transforms us into new creations.

Every day, God longs to make us new, to forgive our sins, and mold and fashion us into his likeness.

May God do a mighty work today as we make room for him to move.

And may we leave this focused time in his presence

with a true feeling of being made new.

Welcome to the First of Teen podcast.

Thank you. of being made new. Welcome to the first of teen podcast. Our verse for today comes from 2 Corinthians 5 verse 17, where Scripture says,

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.

The old is passed away. Behold, the new has come.

One of the greatest lies told to those who have been redeemed by the blood of

Jesus relates to our old and new natures. So many believers live under the oppression of the lie

that God and His grace may see us as clean, but at our core we're truly not.

We live as if redemption in Jesus is like clean clothes, covering up the dirt and filth that will always remain,

and as if redemption is our get-to-heaven free card.

We hold fast to a belief that salvation was more of an illusion

of redemption than an actual transformation. And those lies act like a weights, dragging us back

to the ways and sins of our former selves. Scripture cannot speak more clearly of the opposite.

2 Corinthians 5, 17 through 21 says,

If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.

The old has passed away, behold, the new has come.

All this is from God who, through through Christ reconciled us to himself,

and gave us the ministry of reconciliation.

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