New every day...

On the outside, we're wasting, waning, failing, faltering, falling to bits and pieces if you will, but not so on the inside. Inwardly, we are renewed day by day.

I have a lot of opportunities to think about this these days. I'm definitely not a health-nut, not a bastion of self-control, so here in my forties, I'm having my share of struggles...outwardly. Sure, aches and pains, can wear on you mentally, too, but for the most part, I'm just doing better and better day after day, month after month, year after year...inwardly. I'm actually getting younger all the time.

My conviction is, so are you, whether you realize it or not. That's why Paul said the mind set on the outward reality of life is death. However, life and peace come to you when you set your mind on who you are on the inside, more specifically, on Jesus in you.

In the Old Testament, we found out His mercies were new every morning. Now that we're partakers of the divine nature, we find that we ourselves are new every morning. Just like Adam woke up in the garden one day a full grown man without a past, you and I wake up brand new every day.

I think, and my experience bears out, that the more we realize that, the better we feel, the clearer we think, and the less we ache and gripe and worry. So try to forget the gut, the knees, the condition or the circumstance, the guilt, regret or anger, the fear, worry or dread, and remember, not only is every day new, but inwardly, you also are new every day.