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Be very careful where you walk. Keep a close watch over how you live your life. I’m not sure what you have in mind. Can you be more specific? Yes, I can be more specific. There are places you should not go. There are things you should not do. There are circumstances you should avoid. There are influences you should not allow into your life. There is counsel you should not accept. Why are you saying these things to me? Can you tell me more? You have left the life that you once lived. You have walked away from the darkness of your old life. You are no longer following the patterns, practices and values of the world. You are no longer living a sinful, self-centered and self-sufficient life. You are no longer living a self-indulgent and disobedience life. You want to know me. You want to live a life that is pleasing to me. You want to know and do my will. Instead of walking in the darkness, you want to live in the light with me. Is all of what I said true? Yes, I want to live and walk in the light with you. I want to know and do your will. In every way, I want to do what is pleasing to you. I want to live a life that is completely reliant on you. That is very good.

To keep on walking in the light, you must continue to make a clean break with the darkness. The darkness of the world is all around you. You must not let yourself become part of it. You must separate yourself from all the darkness that is in the world. You must not allow your heart or mind or life to be conformed to the world and all its evil. You must walk away from darkness and you keep on walking forward in the light with me. I get it. I understand.

You will be a light in the world. You will shine brightly for me. You will stand out from all the evil that is in the world. You will live your life in such a way that others will see my life being lived out in you. Others will be drawn to me through the testimony of your life. I will use you to bear fruit for my kingdom and bring glory to my name. I will help you to live this life that I am calling you to live. Will you rely on me? Will you do what I ask? Yes Lord, I will.

Lord, at one time I was living in darkness. I followed all the values, patterns and practices of the world. I thought, and said and did what was evil. I have left that life behind me. Help me now to live and walk with you. Help me to live as your child of the light. Amen

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Discipleship Devotional Study Guide – Therefore – 2 Corinthians 5:17 – A New Creation – Growing As Disciples

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! 2 Corinthians 5:17 (NIV)

Old And New

What is old? What has passed away? What is dead and gone from your life since you started following me? Sin’s power over my life is dead and gone. I am not living under sin’s power. Sin does not dominate and control the course of my life. I am no longer interested in living a self-centered and self-indulgent life. I don’t live to please myself. I am no longer engaged in a constant pursuit of my own comfort and pleasure. I am not the center of my own universe. I don’t think that I know it all or that I am always right. I am no longer allowing myself to be conformed to the patterns and practices and values of the world. I don’t live according to my own mission, vision and goals. Why is this? What has happened to you? I turned my life over to you. I became your follower. My old life is gone. My old sinful life is now dead and buried. When you died, my old life died with you. When you rose from the dead, I rose to a new life in you. Yes, you did.

You are now a new creation in me. How have you been made new? How have I changed you since you started following me? You have changed my heart. It is now my desire to love you with all my heart and mind and soul and strength. It is my joy and delight to follow and serve you. I want what you want. I want my mission, vision and goals in life to come from you. I want to know you. I want to do your will. In every way I want to do what pleases you. I want you to use me for your kingdom. I want to bring glory to your name. I can see that. What else? You have transformed my mind. You have given me new thoughts to think. You are helping me to think your thoughts. You are helping me to know and do your will. Yes, I have changed your heart and transformed your mind. Am I finished with you? Do you perfectly know and do my will? Do you perfectly desire to do what pleases me? You made me a new creation on the first day that I started following you. That does not mean that I am now a finished product. I am far from perfect. You are working in me. You are changing me day by day as I follow you. You are making me new every day in you. Your work in me will not stop until the day I come to meet you face to face. Yes, that’s right. I welcome you to keep on molding and shaping my life according to your purposes and plans. Yes, I will. You can be sure of that.

Lord, thank you for giving me a completely new life to live. You are changing my heart. You are transforming my mind. You are giving me new thoughts to think, words to speak, and deeds to do. You have made the old pass away and the new come into my life. Amen

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