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AWESOME DEVOTIONS: NEW CREATURES IN GOD

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

NEW CREATURES IN GOD

Have you ever heard the story of the farmer who brought his pig into his home, washed him, polished his hooves, put some perfume on him, put a ribbon around his neck and brought him into his living room. The pig looked, and smelled, wonderful! He made a wonderful pet - until the door was left opened! Then the pig went outside as fast as he could and jumped into the first mud puddle he could find? Why? Because he was still a pig!! Nothing the farmer could do on the outside could change who the pig was on the inside. He was still a pig!!

We are like this pig. You can clean us up, put nice clothes on us, make us smell good, put us on the front row at church. But unless we are born again and have Jesus in our heart - we are just like that pig. Our nature has not changed and our true colors will come out. We need to be born again and have Jesus in our heart for our nature to be changed!

Thank you, Lord, for changing us, for cleaning us up and for giving us a new nature!!
Thank you for making us new creatures!

But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of the righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior. Titus 3:4-6


ALL THINGS NEW - STEVEN CURTIS CHAPMAN

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