A New Creature

The Face

Paul names a genuine, comprehensive transformation here, new creature, old things passed away, all things become new. This is not partial renovation, some elements retained while others are updated. It is described as comprehensively new, a genuinely different creature, not merely an improved version of the previous one.

This is worth holding against however much your own sense of identity has remained tethered to old things this verse names as already passed away, old failures, old labels, old patterns you have perhaps stopped believing could genuinely change, still quietly governing how you actually see yourself day to day.

Notice if any man be in Christ, the specific condition named. This comprehensive newness is not automatic apart from this genuine union, but it is described as genuinely, comprehensively true for anyone who meets this condition, not a partial or aspirational newness still waiting to be fully achieved.

Whatever old things continue to quietly govern how you see yourself, despite genuinely being in Christ, examine today whether you have actually received this verse’s comprehensive claim, or whether some old identity has remained functionally in charge, even after the newness this verse insists has already, genuinely come.