Cut it off

Felix ... he's the man to see for your name tag in the morning. He brightens our Sunday mornings.

29  September 2011

Colossians 2:11 In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of flesh in the circumcision of Christ; and you were buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.

The water pipes here at Linga Longa have corroded over the years and slowly choked up with rust, the result is that the pipes are starting to leak. Usually the leak occurs at the elbows or the T-pieces, then when you try to undo the pipe to repair the piece the whole pipe shears off at the joint. When you examine the inside of the pipe the centre hole is about the size of a tooth pick. This happens to most properties when the pipes are older than fifty years, time and corrosion takes its toll.

You cannot fix or reuse these pipes, the best way is to simply replace the entire piping system with new. I suppose we could also relate this to our lives, with time our lifestyle eventually catches up with us and the flow of passion and life is choked up. We can try to fix it, repair leaks but the flow is never what it should be, so the best way is to replace it with something new. To do this we need to cut out the old and replace it with the new and bring the flow of life back to where it should be. We cannot stick to the past and who we were, we need to look to the future and who we are now. Christian circumcision is about cutting off the sinful nature, that nature that chokes the Christian life out of us. Just as we need to cut out the old pipe and replace it with new, so we cut out the sinful nature and replace it with a new one- that of Jesus Christ.

Be encouraged today to cut off the sinful past and be a new creature in Christ

David

Point to ponder: Jesus cut off your sinful nature.  

 Question to consider: Is your life choked with things of the past?