"Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new". 2 Corinthians 5:17
The past two days we have talked about Psalms 114:8 how God turns a rock into standing water and a flint into a fountain of water. We have compared this to our lives and salvation. We said that there are three main forms of matter: solid, liquid and gas. Today I want to continue with this thought and relate it to what happens at the new birth/salvation.
In order for a solid to become a liquid there has to be a change in its molecular structure. At the new birth-- when we are born again-- a change takes place in us. Our "spiritual DNA" is changed. We go from being a "rock" to "water".
A rock is a hard, rigged, solid, stationary, restricted, dead object. Water is the total opposite. It is soft, flowing, conforms to whatever it is put in, yielding, and alive. A rock does nothing. It can't move. It can't refresh. It can't conform. It is just what it is. Water can do much. It gives life. It can satisfy a thirst. It can clean what is dirty. It can support life.
When we are born again, God changes us from a "rock" to "water". He makes us something brand new that we weren't before. He takes our dead hearts of stone and makes them into live hearts of flesh. We are no longer a dead hard lump. We are a live, freely flowing stream. We are the total opposite of what we once were because of the transformation that has taken place in us at salvation.
Have you been saved? Did a transformation take place in you? Or are you still a "rock"? If you are, then you weren't really born again. You may have become religious, but religious is just another name for being a rock. If that is the case, let Jesus Christ come into your life and make you into that new person. Let Him transform you into a free-flowing fountain of water.
Have a great day. Have you been changed from a rock into water?
In order for a solid to become a liquid there has to be a change in its molecular structure. At the new birth-- when we are born again-- a change takes place in us. Our "spiritual DNA" is changed. We go from being a "rock" to "water".
A rock is a hard, rigged, solid, stationary, restricted, dead object. Water is the total opposite. It is soft, flowing, conforms to whatever it is put in, yielding, and alive. A rock does nothing. It can't move. It can't refresh. It can't conform. It is just what it is. Water can do much. It gives life. It can satisfy a thirst. It can clean what is dirty. It can support life.
When we are born again, God changes us from a "rock" to "water". He makes us something brand new that we weren't before. He takes our dead hearts of stone and makes them into live hearts of flesh. We are no longer a dead hard lump. We are a live, freely flowing stream. We are the total opposite of what we once were because of the transformation that has taken place in us at salvation.
Have you been saved? Did a transformation take place in you? Or are you still a "rock"? If you are, then you weren't really born again. You may have become religious, but religious is just another name for being a rock. If that is the case, let Jesus Christ come into your life and make you into that new person. Let Him transform you into a free-flowing fountain of water.
Have a great day. Have you been changed from a rock into water?
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