Old Self/New Self

"For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; And the former things will not be remembered or come to mind."  

-Isaiah 65:17

It was only a few years ago that I learned the truth of what happens to the caterpillar in the cocoon.  I must have been absent that day in Biology because I thought the caterpillar's body simple shrunk down and grew wings.  To discover that it digests itself into a liquid and then the cells that survived grow a butterfly was rather shocking!

Oswald Chambers writes. . . .

When we are born again, the Holy Spirit begins to work His new creation in us, and there will come a time when there is not a bit of the old order left, the old solemnity goes, the old attitude to things goes, and "all things are of God."  

He asks how are we able to put away the old self. . . .

The only way is by allowing not a bit of the old life to be left; but only simple perfect trust in God, such trust that we no longer want God's blessings, but only want Himself. 

This "simple perfect trust in God" are the "cells" that will grow us into our new life in Christ.  The old life is no longer.  We emerge as new creatures with new purposes, one with God.

I am grateful for the new life I can find in God now and for the one yet to come.