It's a new year and it ushers with it a new season. As with all new seasons, it's a chance to make a fresh start. Whatever you've collected in the past, what ever you've still got lying around, now is the time to throw it out. Get rid of it. Making any kind of a change in our lives calls for action on our part. The Bible says that we are to "put off" our former selves and "put on the new man which was created according to God in true righteousness and holiness," (Ephesians 4:22-24). How do we do that? Through purifying ourselves and changing our clothes. We do it through reprogramming our minds, hearts, and mouths. Romans 12:2 says we must not conform to the old patterns (put off the old self), but we must be transformed by the renewing of our minds (putting on the new). We are to think on things that are true, honest, just, pure, lovely, of good report, and contain virtue and praise, (see Philippians 4:8). As you think on these things, speak them out of your mouth, and let the words sink into every crevice. Let the Word of God change you. When we make a commitment to God and we allow Him to work in our lives, we will no longer be called shameful, but beautiful.
After Jacob returned...God appeared to him and blessed him. God said to him..."You will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel." ~Genesis 35:9-10
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