In our minds, new means different. In our understanding new means unused. But what are new shoes, really? Old cow repurposed. What is a new car, really? Something old, repurposed. Old ore, now metal, made into a “new” car. We could run the list through 100 examples from homes to paper but each, no matter how “new” to us, is not actually something NEW.
But when God says that we are new, He has something totally other in mind. Listen, it is an almost completely unimaginable NEW REALITY… a NEW AGE that is both COMING and already HERE; and we are caught in the middle of it, and essential to the goal of it!
Again, if we could begin to allow our minds to see to depths of what NEW means to God, we would never think that we are any less than God made us and shaped us to be. IF we could open ourselves to see what NEW means to God, we would never question our worth in this world. If we could, by God’s grace, conceptualise what NEW means to Him, there would be absolutely no fear in ever being authentically and completely who He made us to be; no filter necessary. The truth that we must allow to sink into our hearts, regardless of how we left feeling after the wondrous news that we are REMARKABLY and WONDERFULLY made, is this—In Christ you are completely and uniquely new; the old you is completely and uniquely annihilated!