What is “New Life in Christ”? It is a radically new heavenly life in Christ that begins here and now and goes on forever. So much has been promised to us! But it doesn’t all just drop on us out of the blue. We “come to life” by believing and then living the truths which our new life is built upon.
If you want to know how to make your new life count (and enjoy it) now that you are saved, you’ve come to the right section. And if you are an older Christian who is struggling to find the joy, peace and fulfillment promised by the gospel, then these articles will help refresh and restore you. True spiritual health is living with your heart yielded to Jesus in every situation. That’s a different approach, isn’t it? That’s what makes our new life ever fresh and ever new!
There is a huge difference between the enemy’s ways with you and God’s. Have you noticed how the enemy (a.k.a. “the accuser of the brethren”) is always breathing out heavy threats, bearing down hard on you for every fault, putting pressure on you to fix yourself or your problems pronto, pushing you to be your own savior? How different the Lord’s ways with us are! With God there are no demands pressuring us to rescue ourselves…
What is normal for a Christian? Normal is running to Jesus and God the Father saying: Lord, I need Your help and Your leadership: help me trust You; show me what to do. I fully surrender to You: send whatever You want to send; allow whatever You have to allow; ask of me whatever You desire; withhold me from and withhold from me all that is needed. This is normal. You and I have been shown the Ruler of the…
Isn’t our true inheritance “in Christ”? Yes! Naturally we need to focus on our new inheritance in Christ, but that doesn’t mean we don’t have another inheritance to make peace with. Every newborn Christian has an inheritance from the old man—the person they were before Christ entered in. Depending upon how recklessly, or how extravagantly, we “put on” the old man, there may be a considerable inheritance…
What is “New Life in Christ”? It is a radically new heavenly life in Christ that begins here and now and goes on forever. So much has been promised to us! But it doesn’t all just drop on us out of the blue. We “come to life” by believing and then living the truths which our new life is built upon.
