Something old and something new.. typically a slogan for stuff that a bride needs.
I think it applies to us as Jesus loving people. In order to become new, for us to be born again, we had to have something old that isn’t working anymore in our lives.
You can act like you didn’t have that old stuff, that past, those issues… you can act like you didn’t need them to get where you are. But the truth is, we wouldn’t have a reason for Jesus and being born again if there wasn’t old stuff that we had to get rid of and work past. In order for something to become new, it had to be another thing in the first place. Maybe a little worn, roughed up, covered in some dirt and not as shiny as it could be. And when Jesus brings us up into new life and the old passes away, it doesn’t mean it was never there. What it means is that He saw us through that old stuff. He saw us through the dirt and shame and sin. He saw something in us, even underneath our grimy surface.
I’m thankful for the old. It meant that we would either be left that way or made new, and with God, there is no question – we are made new. He doesn’t leave us how He finds us.
Thankful.
