walk out the new you

He has changed our lives. I am talking about what Jesus was sent by the Father to do. What an honor and a blessing to know who we are. Yet these is something we need to do once we know what God has done.

Make a choice to live out the change. Walk it out. Believe it and don’t let lies be buried in you and burden you over and over. How do we make this change stick? Walk it out…

Ephesians 4:22 NLT

throw off your old sinful nature and your former way of life, which is corrupted by lust and deception.

The old goes away. Like 2 Corinthians 5:17 says we are new. So throw off that old way.

Galatians 3:27 NLT

And all who have been united with Christ in baptism have put on Christ, like putting on new clothes.

We are united with Jesus. Nothing and no one can change that fact. Look at the end of Romans 8 about absolutely nothing can remove God’s love for us and from us. But once again how do we have this a reality? Throw off the old ways and old thinking and walk out what God says!

Galatians 2:20 NLT

My old self has been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So I live in this earthly body by trusting in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

That might be my favorite verse. But it is hard. Walk it out and watch God change you even more.

Praise God for the completed and incredible work Jesus did that we could not do for ourselves.

Hebrews 10:10 NLT

For God’s will was for us to be made holy by the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ, once for all time.

Walk it out. Have a great week!

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