RENEWED THROUGH KNOWLEDGE

2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

The verse above is a go to text for many when we want to emphasize what a belief in Jesus means. In summary, the old man: sinful, guilty and worthy of death, is gone and a new man after order of the Christ takes their place. One would therefore have thought then that just as it is when functions are updated when an old equipment is replaced with new, the new man would function perfectly once in place.

St Paul in this letter to the Colossians however appears to highlight a preamble to suggest otherwise:

Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds, and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him (Colossians 3:9-10)

To point out therefore, that new man does not function by default. He requires an input of knowledge that transforms them to mirror the source from which it came. Becoming a ‘new man’, a believer to put it, is therefore not enough, there is additional work involved to acquire the body of knowledge necessary to renew that new man.

That is the reason many never move past the point of ‘I am a new creation’ because they fail to commit to the task of growing through knowledge to become transformed. The key then is this “

go for structured knowledge about the God who created you because that is the only way to know how to reflect his image accurately.

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