Imagine coming up to a large and beautiful picture frame that is the picture of life. And when you peer through it all you see is you. Herein lies the biggest problem of humanity’s existence! We have been the center of our view of life and of what we think is life. Sadly, this tragic narrative was transferred to us through Adam and Eve’s partaking of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. (The do-it-yourself tree) The knowledge received by Adam and Eve caused them to live a performance-based life focused on self. 

This is why religiosity is so detrimental! False religion focuses on one’s works to deserve God and his favor and therefore heaven. True Christianity is free from self and therefore free from the life of performance! Yes! There is a much better way to live! Regarding the big picture framed I talked about in the beginning, if you can imagine yourself peering through it and only seeing Jesus, you will be on the right track! 

Romans 6:3-4  Are you ignorant of the fact that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? We were buried therefore with Him by the baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glorious [power] of the Father, so we too might [habitually] live and behave in newness of life. (AMP)

At the cross, we died with Christ to the life of self and a life of performance under the law. At that time, we were offered the free gift of stepping into a brand-new life where Jesus and his good opinion of us is the center of what we see when we look through the big picture frame of life! This means a life wholly free of condemnation and failure! This means living a life of love, victory, power and the anointing of God! Jesus, understanding this life that would be available to us through him, told us to pray like this.

 “Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven." Matthew 6:10

In other words, the life of heaven is accessible right here! Living condemned and seeing yourself as never good enough is most certainly not for you! God, through Christ, has opened to you a door to a brand-new life of absolutely loving being you! In Christ, your best is indeed yet to come! Stepping into this new life that God has offered to you through Jesus Christ is not complicated – as a matter-of-fact, God has made it so that even a child can receive! Jesus made it clear when he said, “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 18:3

Many times we try to figure out God instead of just believing him. Yes – you must accept the reality of that which is unseen! You must believe and receive God’s free gift of righteousness made available to you through Jesus' death, burial and resurrection. It’s time for a new face to be in that big picture frame of life! It’s time to step into the life of freedom that God has so graciously offered to us! Yes! It’s time to receive and live in…

THE BRAND-NEW YOU 

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