2 Corinthians 5:17 - Lectio

"Anyone in Christ is a new person. The old is gone and the new has come." - 2 Corinthians 5:17

When I heard this I decided to meditate on it, using some of what I've learned in class to getter a deeper understanding of the passage. So I read in lectio and picked out these words: old and new. I thought about the difference in the words and, though it may seem obvious, there is a definite change that must take place in this passage. However, it's not just a change but a transformation. Now I read in meditatio and rotate around those two words. Anything I've seen in this world never becomes younger or newer. Everything just ages away and there's no stopping it. This passage says that our old selves will transform into something new in Christ. Reading it again I focused on the word "gone." It's not that the old has become new. It will be comletely replaced by new. It's amazing that nothing in this physical world could possibly do something such as this. Only God has the ability to take a person and create a new soul in them.

Is it a new soul? I don't know. myabe it's just a new life or a new wa of living. A lot of psychology teaches that one's personality is just about set in stone around the age of ten. With God that means nothing. Psychology means nothing. God will throw it out the door. This passage shows that God has control to take old things and make them dissapear, creating a new and more powerful creation. It's amazing how much one can get out of so few words. This passage is small but has a lot of meaning. There is a change, a replacing, of what we are. One in Christ cannot continue to live as they were or they cannot be in Christ.

Prayer: Lord I want to change. Inside of me there is something old, hanging onto me. Let it dissapear. Let what I once was, "All of my gains now fade away." Please let me be new in you. Amen.