Have you ever replaced the worn out carpeting in your home? If you’re like most of us, you drag that carpet out into your driveway or garage, pull out your weaving loom and yarn, and to begin to re-stitch each and every worn-out fiber.

Of course you don’t!

You drag that soiled, grimy, ugly carpet to the dump and are glad to be rid of it! The vibrant color and crisp clean scent of new carpet brightens any home no matter what the size. So why is it that we, as believers in Christ, work so hard to drag our past into our present? Wouldn’t it be so much easier to simply press the reset button on our lives?

You can!

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

Today’s scripture makes it very clear that Christ has long forgotten our past mistakes no matter how horrific and hurtful they may be. If Christ – who loves you, who cares for you, who created you – is willing to let the past remain in the past, at what point are you going to do the same? All things are truly new for YOU when Christ is your Savior!

excerpt by Jim Penner from A Positive Minute - The Hour of Power

“The Lord upholds all who fall and lifts up all who are bowed down.” – Psalm 145:14

The greatest news in the world is that God has visited this earth. He has walked this planet. He has made his great pronouncements. He has spoken his mind. He has declared his will. He has revealed his heart.

It is Jesus who reveals to the human race that God is “the eye that never closes, the ear that is never shut, the mind that never stops thinking, the heart that never grows cold.”

God would be only a vague idea, an irresponsible product of someone’s imagination, an unreliable exercise of human philosophizing, if it were not for Jesus Christ. Interpret Jesus as you wish, but one fact emerges clearly—God becomes real to those who draw close to Christ.

So listen to him when he says, “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest” (Matthew 11: 25). Come to him…you with the empty, hollow lives. And when you come, don’t intellectualize, don’t analyze, and don’t diagnose him. Simply bow. Simply believe. Simply bend your knee, and you will experience the good life he has for you!

~ Robert H. Schuller (This excerpt was taken from the “Power for Life Daily Devotional”)