November 18

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.

HAVE I, in penitence for sin and faith in the only Redeemer, become a new creature in Christ Jesus? Have I not only a new name, but a new heart, and a new nature? Have old thoughts, old principles, old aims, old desires, old practices, old habits passed away? By divine grace have I so been regenerated, that the controlling love of sin has been taken away, and that now it is my chief and earnest desire to know and do the will of God?

There are three things which the true Christian desires with respect to sin: justification, that it may not condemn; sanctification, that it may not reign; and glorification, that it may not be—CECIL.

The mere outward reformation of morality, differs as much from regeneration by the Holy Spirit, as whitewashing an old rotten house differs from taking it down, and building a new one in its room.—TOPLADY.

Finish, Lord, thy new creation,

Pardoned, holy, may we be;

Let us know thy full salvation;

Find our highest joys in thee.

Take away our love of sinning;

Fill us with a Saviour's love;

Let us serve thee without ceasing,

Till we reach our rest above!