Today's encouragement comes from the familiar and lovely words of 2 Corin-thians 5:17, which say this:
"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have pass-ed away; behold, all things have become new."Newness is a good thing. For the believing churchman, all past sins are for-given—covered by the blood of Jesus; and the present and the future is brighter (than the past). All people outside of Jesus also want "newness," and they seek it all the time. But they remain ensconced in their old ways and "an-cient” sins. Regenerate Christians (alone) have true and new life—all in Christ.
We Christians may have to suffer more than most people; but we also have a surpassing glory that more than compensates for it: and that is our blessed life in our Lord Jesus. Let us love Him today; and enjoy Him.
[Puritan quote of the day: "Happiness and rest are what all men pursue. But the things of the world, wherein most men seek it, can never provide it. They are laboring and spending themselves in vain.” —Jonathan Edwards, in his sermon entitled, "The Peace which Christ Gives . . . "]
