Change is strange for most of us. We get "comfortable" in our habits, our thoughts, and our behaviors. Many times, those things are full of broken ways that keep us in the grip of sin.

Break free! Get on your face before God and ask for that "new life" and "new creature" existence God tells us about.

2 Corinthians 5:17 tells us that if any man is in Christ he is a new creature and the old things start passing away. "Therefore if anyone is in Christ, this person is a new creation; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come."

This message of the new nature is not a dark and dire message ... it is a message of supreme hope! The Spirit of God can accomplish a life-changing transformation for anyone who comes to Jesus and remains bound to Him.

God's kind of change – oh, yeah – that's worth all the coins in the world!

​(Romans 6-8; Ephesians 4:4-6, 4:23-24; Ephesians 1:13-14, 2:4-10)

All who have come to know Jesus Christ have been saved to serve.

Isaiah was a humble and devoted prophet of God in his time. He even saw the King, the Lord of Hosts seated on a throne in glory, majesty and splendor (See Isaiah 6:1-8).

During this time before the Lord, Isaiah heard the Lord say, “’Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?’ Then I said, ‘Here am I. Send me!’” But to whom was Isaiah being sent? He was to go to a rebellious nation who had forsaken the Lord, urging them to repent and turn back to the Living God.
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Today, we are living in a degenerate world of moral decay and decline, and many are calling evil good and good evil - just as it was in Isaiah's time. They are substituting darkness for light and light for darkness and substituting bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter (See Isaiah 5:20).

For so many, the annual pilgrimage to church occurs on Easter Sunday, perhaps out of tradition or feelings of guilt if they do not attend.

But what do the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ mean to you? What is the significance of the power of God to raise His Son from the Dead, and is it relevant in your life today?

Let's visit what the sacrifice and resurrection of Jesus meant to Paul in Philippians 3:10-11, "That I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being confirmed to His death; in order that I may attain to the resurrection from the dead."

Paul diligently sought to know Jesus - not intellectually, but experientially and intimately in his daily walk. He hungered for and pursued God for a flow of the Holy Spirit that the life of Jesus would be seen in him and witnessed by others. All his passion was due to the identification, ownership, and commitment he had to Jesus who had surrendered His life for him.

How about you? Are you experiencing and encountering the resurrection power of Jesus Christ in your life today? Remember - He arose that you may live!

​Some time ago, when our children were younger and still at home, Shirley and I decided to have our entire family “take a break” from TV. Shirley put a note on front of the television that read, “The view gets better when you look up.” One day, a pre-teen nephew was visiting. He read the sign that could not be missed and looked up with a curious and puzzled expression, seeing nothing but a ceiling. It was a humorous yet a great teaching moment.
 
As Christians, we are encouraged, admonished, and warned by God to “Set your mind (affection) on things above, not on the things that are on earth. For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.” (Colossians 3:2-3)
 
Paul also speaks of the miraculous change in his life and how he viewed life after his conversion. He said, “I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things and count them but rubbish in order that I may gain Christ.”. (Philippians 3:8)
 
How about you? Are you willing and desirous to look up to Jesus and enjoy the view He has for you?