Out With the Old

We decided over the weekend that it was time to shop for a new refrigerator. Our old one is over 15 years old, and we thought it would be better to buy a new one while the current one was still running.

There is an outlet store not far from us that sells appliances that have been damaged during shipping. The discounts for a scratch here or a small dent there are enormous, so that was our designated stop. We hadn't expected to buy this weekend. We were just going to price; but the refrigerator we ended with was just too big a deal to pass up.

Of course, we didn't buy right away. We went home, prayed, and did some research. We discovered our old refrigerator used twice as much electricity as the newer one! And the newer one was about 7 cubic feet bigger!!

When my husband went back to the store later that evening, he paid the price on the tag which was about 40% off retail. He picked the refrigerator up on Sunday and it is now sitting in our kitchen keeping very quiet (our old one was starting to get noisy) and looking tall and regal.

I was reminded of our lives before we accepted Jesus into our hearts. Sin made us old and noisy and about ready to fall apart. We used up a lot of energy and weren't very efficient. When we accepted the price that Christ paid for us on the cross, we became brand new. We weren't and aren't perfect. There may be a few dents or scratches from our old ways that need to be smoothed out over time, but we are clean and we run smoothly because the Lord has made our hearts work properly.

2 Corinthians 5:17 says, "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold all things have become new." If you have already accepted Christ as your Lord and Savior, rejoice. You are a new creation in the eyes of God. If you haven't, turn to Him. Ask Him to recreate you so that you can toss out the old, sinful ways, and begin life anew.