Looks Just Like…

From now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ. (2 Corinthians 5:16–18, NIV 1984).

My Musings – “From now on.” Sounds like a resolution to me. Perhaps you are one of the multitudes that regards Christ “from a worldly point of view?” You go from one year to the next, resolving that the next year will be better. But come the end, it “[looked] just like the OLD year.” Funny, but then again not so funny, how disillusion kind of rhymes with resolution.

The problem is, and always has been, that we view things “from a worldly…