He makes all things NEW!
As a young woman, I was wishing that someone would write a book that contains the formula of everyone’s life. That book would then contain so much knowledge that our lives could be so much better, at least that’s how I felt. Knowing the secrets, the ins and out of being the best office worker, chef, friend, conservationist, neighbor, leader, homemaker, well you get the idea. You could be the best at everything if you knew all the shortcuts of making life better.
A few years later, I collapsed and landed in the hospital. The doctors felt something was really wrong, but they didn’t know what it was. They tried every kind of test on me. They hooked me up to a heart monitor and did a bone marrow biopsy, x-rays, lab tests and they couldn’t figure out what was wrong. They just knew I was deteriorating and they didn’t know why. Then one day I felt like maybe if there’s a God in heaven, he could save a young mother like me and so I prayed, “if you would only save me, Lord. I will do what you want. Read the Bible become a Christian, if you would just save me.“
From that day on, I got stronger and stronger, the doctors let me go home and never could come up with an answer as to why I was so ill. True to my word and wanting to find out who this Jesus was, I started to read the Bible. I found myself reading the New Testament daily and becoming a “new creature in Christ” as they say. I didn’t even know it until a friend asked ”why does she seem so different?” Another stated, “she’s born again.” I tried to hide my surprise upon hearing that conversation. But it was true that every morning seemed a new world unlike the old one. I was so happy with my personal relationship with the Lord. Eventually learning what “born again” meant, that we become a new person in Christ was mind blowing. Christians say how wonderful it will be after they pass on. My thought was knowing Jesus here on earth couldn’t be better than the next world promises!
What is the most advantageous advice for others in life?
Certainly not waiting but to come to know Christ. Believe that He died on the cross for all of us, for our sins, so that we can be a new creature in Him. Jesus loves us, comforts us, helps us, watches over us and wants to live with us. Jesus is a friend who will never leave or abandon us and will guide us. Jesus will make a life better in everything that one does when having that personal relationship with Him.
If I had only known earlier what I know now. Jesus is the best guidance for all of us in the world; and the book that I wanted back in the day had actually already been written many, many years ago, thankfully.
2 Corinthians 5:17 - Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
With Love,
Kristine
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