New Creation

2 Cor 5:17 (NLT) —

‘This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a NEW person. The old life is gone; a NEW life has begun!’

Humour me with this one – I like the reasoning below but find the practice very hard!

God is Creator: He makes all things new - but did creation take place just once, for all time? Well, think a bit... The past is fixed. What happened, happened and it cannot be changed. It is fixed forever. The future, on the other hand, is unknown...

The future is full of potential – any one of billions of things might happen. But in the end, only one thing happens. At that moment, future suddenly becomes past, and we discover what actually did happen. That instant – between the potential of the future and the fixed, known past – is the moment at which reality is created. That is the moment of creation. We call it the present.

And if the present is when creation takes place, the present is where we find the Creator!!

This is important. If the Creator is here in the present (as well as the past and the future), and you are here in the present (and no-when else) there is only one time to meet God – now! You can meet him and experience his creative power filling you with new life – but only now!

You may well have met with God in the past. Rejoice if you did. You may meet with God in the future, once it has become the present – pray that it may be so. But you only meet with God – ever – in the present. He is always here now to meet you – but only if you are herenow to meet him. Everything in our relationship with God depends on what we do in the present moment, while it is the present – what we do with now.

Reflect — He says in 2 Cor. 6:2: 'In the time of my favour I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you.’ I tell you, now is the time of God's favour, now is the day of salvation. Meet God – now. Be made new – now.