Forty Days Full - An Invitation To Real Life

Day Thirty-One: The New Creation

“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.” (II Corinthians 5:17 NKJV)

I n the movie 'The Passion of the Christ' there is a powerful scene between Jesus and His mother Mary. As He is carrying the cross to Golgotha he stumbles and falls. Mary sees Him fall and runs to him in a motherly act to comfort, as she did when he was a young child. In the moment of their embrace Jesus looks into her eyes and says, "See Mother, I make all things new." Jesus wasn't forced to the cross. He went there willingly. There was a price that must be paid to make things new. God knew what it would take. So why couldn't God just sprinkle some pixie dust over us to make us new and call it good. He's all powerful, right? He can do whatever He wants, right? Actually, that's not true because God is always faithful to His promise. His beautiful creation became so completely contaminated by sin it caused a massive chasm of relationship. God is holy, while man became unholy. He had promised Adam that if he sinned by eating the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, he would surely die. He is always true to His word. Paul tells us in the book of Romans that "The wages of sin is death." Life on this planet became a terminal condition. Separation from God is death, because He is the source of all life. All humanity, no matter how great or small, would face the same end. It is this