2 Corinthians 5
16 So we have stopped evaluating others from a human point of view. At one time we thought of Christ merely from a human point of view. How differently we know him now!
17 This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!
Heys there. Want to blog but I seem to always put it off till late. And everyone in SG/MY is always online late, so yeah. Lots of things to talk about.
This was the verse that sparked off one of my major turning points in my life. When authority for victory really spoke to me, and life turned for the more excellent and confident.
I like the simple revelation from this in the NLT version. Just as how Christ was once only known from a human perspective, so we too, were a purely human creation (with a dead spirit), until we belonged to Christ, and now become a new person. Not a refined or restored Adam, but really a new creature, even better than the original Adam. We are now joined with Christ. We now have a supernatural, spiritual aspect to life. And it begins with believing and receiving. Not working and doing. But it grows with hard work and discipline, because the old self too works hard at keeping me off track.
But the main idea here is that no point using the old self to defeat the old self. Discipline cannot defeat ill-discipline. That's why we get a new life, become a new creation, and use our spiritual aspect to fight for us!
Yup, that's the revelation for today, that I'm spirit, and the spirit part fights alongside my body to become the god-man (controversial term I know) that I am created to be in Christ.