Who Got the Better Workout?

“…for you have stripped off your old evil nature and all its wicked deeds. In its place you have clothed yourselves with a brand new nature that is continually being renewed as you learn more and more about Christ, who created this new nature within you.”

Colossians 3:9-10

 

 

 

The words you have speak of an action that has already taken place.

In the verse for today there are two things you have done.

You have stripped off your old evil nature and

you have clothed yourself with a brand new nature.

The old has gone and the new has come.

Past tense!

“But” you say, “how can it be gone, I battle the old nature all the time!”

Sure you do.

We all do.

Just because we have a new nature it does not mean the old man is giving up without a fight.

He’s eager for his life of ease, his self-gratifying ways and his “me-centric” thinking to return.

The “old nature” or “old man” tries to re-exert his dominance a thousand times a day.

Every time he flexes his muscle we have a choice to make.

Who will win – the new nature fashioned after Christ or – the old nature which once dominated our lives?

 Like a repetition at the gym each choice strengthens us after one nature or the other.

Look back on your day today.

Who got the better workout?

The old man with his works of the flesh or the new man fashioned after Christ?