You Are a New Creation
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The Problem with 'Trying to Be Better'
A lot of us approach the Christian life like a self-improvement project. We take the old self — habits, patterns, wounds, tendencies — and we try to sand down the rough edges. More discipline. More willpower. More guilt when we fall short. The result, usually, is exhaustion with a side of shame.
But Paul doesn't describe the Christian life as renovation. He describes it as resurrection. A new creation isn't improved raw material — it's a different category of thing entirely.
"If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come."
— 2 Corinthians 5:17
A lot of us approach the Christian life like a self-improvement project. We take the old self — habits, patterns, wounds, tendencies — and w
