Why?

First of all, I am new. Not in terms my flesh- age, fingernails, hair but "me", I am new. The part of me that has thoughts and feels, desires and hates is completely different from what it was. This might sound strange and distant but imagine you were put through a life and death experience. This experience would alter you forever- maybe not your flesh but certainly the thinking, feeling parts of you. The bible says that I have experienced this. Our problem, the reason why we sin and always feel lost- attempting to supplement this feeling with relationships and things- is that we have chosen other things that are not God. This is sin. We want to poor out our lives to something less than the creator of the universe. I have done this, we have done this. In order to return to God, in order to return to the joy that we can have, we need to be new so that the things which separate us from God are there no longer. That is why Jesus came, to create new people. He did not come to institute morality. He came to live in a new way so that we could be grafted into that new life. Paul in the bible says that when Jesus died, he died to. He then rose newly, like Jesus rose. He then does not live how he did, but rather, he lives with new desires and passions as a new son of God. When I came to believe that Jesus did what he says he did and was who he said he was I became new. This blog is about how I am living in reaction to that experience. As that new creation I am to be a follower of Jesus who makes other followers of Jesus. Therefore, if this blog points you to Jesus, follow him and show others how to follow him. What God chooses to use to show him may it withstand, what doesn’t, let it be destroyed. Amen