New Creation

II Corinthians 5:17 says, “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation;  the old has gone, the new has come!”  

When we begin with Christ there are two major realities at play:  first, we are transformed and we live a new life in Him;  second, we are daily being renewed so that our growth and development each day is drawing us closer to His likeness every day.  We can no longer look back and say we look just like we did yesterday, because in Christ, TODAY, we are new creatures!

As we begin our new adventure, I have every confidence that what God is calling the Morgan family to, and St. Paul’s to, will be met with His life-giving Spirit, His dynamic growth, and His joyful presence.  It is our responsibility to live into the new thing that He is calling us to, and not to hold on to the stuff of the world that tends to keep us from moving forward in growth.  The future will always stretch us, but God will always meet us there if we are willing to go where He calls us.  It is there that He will bless us and pour out His favor and anointing.

The passage concludes with this:  “We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making His appeal through us.  We implore you on Christ’s behalf:  be reconciled to God.” [II Corinthians 5:20].  If there is anything that I could hope to have encouraged in you over the past eleven years, it is to be right (“reconciled”) with God.  If you are right with God, you will naturally draw others into reconciliation with Him.

Let us grow together;  let us love with wild abandon;  and let us be His ambassadors.

Richest Blessings in Christ,

Dan

The Rev. Daniel C. Morgan

Associate Rector