For the past few days my wife and I have been redoing our bedroom and adjoining bath. Part of this was applying a new coat (and color) of paint to both areas. I have to admit it not only looks different, it also looks better.
Buried somewhere under that new coat of paint is the old color, but now you can’t see it, and it looks brand new. But if you scrape away the new paint, the old will reappear.
People sometimes treat their lives with a new coat of paint. They make some outward physical changes and maybe some new attitudes and actions. To look at them they now look different (and sometimes even better). But underneath their new exterior is hidden the old self. If you scrape against it, the old will reappear.
Life cannot be permanently changed by simply applying a ‘new cost of paint’. No matter what we do, the imprint of the ‘way of the world’ will remain upon us. The only way to eradicate the old and discover the new is found in Romans 12:1-2: “Do not be conformed to this world [a new coat of paint?], but, be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” Verse 1 tells us how to renew our mind, by: “presenting your bodies as a living sacrifice holy, acceptable to God.”
Check out John 3:16 and start your spiritual makeover today.
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