Recently I was talking to a friend who has been serving the Lord for over five years. While talking to him I learned that he is having trouble making it to church on Sunday mornings, because he works on Sunday afternoons. He said he needed to rest before work. Then he said, “Besides, you know how I am if I don’t get my sleep.”
One hears idioms all the time such as; “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks”, “I woke up on the wrong side of the bed”, “It was a slip of the tongue”, or “I’m giving them a taste of their own medicine”. The problem occurs when it’s Christians using these sayings.
Don’t we know that these idioms no longer apply to us? Don’t we know that we are all new creatures in Christ?
“Therefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things are passed away; behold new things have come.” 2 Corinthians 5:17
Why do so many of us allow the enemy to affect how we view ourselves? Why do we allow these lies to perpetuate within ourselves? Don’t we know that God is working within us to make us whole, and pure? I understand why people who don’t serve God use these expressions, but I believe it grieves the Spirit to hear us, children of the most High, say these things aloud to excuse our behaviors.
My friends, there is no longer a need to use these idiotic idioms as a banner for your life, and to excuse how you act. Instead use God’s mercy, and His grace to change you into the person He wants you to be.
If you have reached a point in your relationship with God where you feel that these silly phrases describe you better than how God sees you, or if you don’t know God at all than I invite you to New Life Berwyn to see yourself as God see you.
“…put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its creator” Colossians 3:10
