While the image of lugging around a dead body on your back is gruesome and unnerving, it is a much more common sight on the spiritual level than we recognize. I talked about disqualification yesterday, and as we know the truth about this, it can at times be hard to shake that feeling. When we say yes to the Lord and accept His gift of salvation we are made completely new.
2 Corinthians 5:17 “Therefore anyone who is in Christ is a new creation, the old has gone the new has come.”
The old is gone! But it is a process coming to the place of living that reality. This would be comparable to a snake shedding its skin. During the process of shedding that old skin it becomes detatched, but all the while it is still carrying it around until finally it slithers out of its dead skin.
So recognize that when God says, “do this” and you say, “well what about all of those things that I have done or not done, or totally dropped the ball on?” When we have repented and asked forgiveness, His response every time will be, “I don’t know what you are talking about.”
Eph 8:10 “ ...your spirit is alive because of righteousness.”
Alive - It’s who He’s made you, drop the corpse and start running the race, Living a Legacy!
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