Hi! and good day, GUYS. Our daily bread, today:
THE GOOD NEWS (03 August 2015)
“You must give up your former way of living, the old self, whose deceitful desires bring self-destruction. Renew yourselves spiritually, from inside, and put on the new self, or self according to GOD, that is created in true righteousness and holiness.” – Ephesians 4:22-24
(The old self and the new self. – This image opposes two kinds of life that co-exist in every society and in a certain sense, in each of us. Conversion has not installed us in a state of perfection; even if we are at peace with GOD in a very real sense unity is not in us. We experience temptation and struggle; our decisions both small and great lead us in one of two directions, either the old self hopelessly ruined or a slave of selfishness, or a person transfigured by love.
Old self, new self correspond with other expressions of Paul: “according to the flesh” or “according to the SPIRIT”; “children of darkness” or “children of light”; “slaves of sin” or “persons free in CHRIST”.)
