One of my favorite lines from the movie Chicken Little is often quoted by the sad little chicken himself. While trying to make something of himself in the height-impaired life he is living, Chicken Little often says, "Today is a new day!" This brave little chicken will not let his past mistakes, messed up relationships, and unfair situations overshadow the possibility of the brightness of today.
Why is it then, that we as Christians often live in the defeats and troubles of the past when we have been created new? (2 Corinthians 5:17) Was Jesus' saving blood just good for yesterday, or is it washing you anew today? We are to live victoriously through Christ. That does not mean, however, that we are to be snotty to those around us who have not come to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. We are to guide and shepherd them with love, not haughtiness.
Today is your new day. Live fully for Christ so that His radiance shines through you drawing others to ask what is up with you today. Take some time to mend a broken relationship, call that person you've been meaning to check on, take those old clothes to a ministry who can use them, or share a word of love and kindness with those who desperately need it.
After all, today can be their new day too. Don't you want to be the one blessed enough to share that with them?
...you took off your former way of life, the old man that is corrupted by deceitful desires; you are being renewed in the spirit of your minds; you but on the new man, the one created according to God's likeness in righteousness and purity of the truth.
Ephesians 4:22-24
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