A New Creation
For Paul, a new creation meant a total renovation of the inner self, a change of mind and heart. It meant far more than the passive union achieved in water baptism. To be "in Christ," he told the Philippians, means to have in you the mind of Christ Jesus, to think as Christ thought, to have the ideals Christ had, to throb with the desires that filled Christ's heart, to replace all your natural actions to persons, events, and circumstances with the response of Jesus Christ. In a word, a christcentric life means to live in the heart of Jesus, to share his tastes and aversions, to have the same interests, affections, and attitudes, to be motivated in everything by his loving compassion. It means making the habitual thought pattern of Jesus Christ so completely your own that truly "I no longer live, but Christ lives in me."
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! 2 Corinthians 5:17
Where have you seen God's grace in your life today?