A New Creation

“What matters instead is a new creation.” (Galatians 6:15 CSB)

People have various notions about what is important. We base them on values we either adopt from others we admire or develop on our own. Whatever the source, we all have “what matters” systems we go by, and within these systems we prioritize according to what matters most.

In the churches of Galatia, there were people who were attempting to impose their systems of “what matters” on everyone else. Their systems, however, came into stark contrast with a fundamental truth of the Christian faith. Thus, Paul wrote that “what matters instead is a new creation.”

We are a new creation. Faith has led us into a totally new life, the life of the Spirit, whereby we have a spiritual fellowship with the Holy Spirit of God that overflows into fellowship with other believers. This life is characterized by freshness and newness, where the air we breathe is freedom. We have been set free from what was so that we may live now as a new creation. God brought this about in us when we received Him into our hearts by faith. That is the life He has given to us as His special gift to us, and we are to continue in this life.

We are a new creation in Christ, and that is what matters.

Lord, We thank You for this special gift, and we ask You to help us today to live as a new creation in the freedom You instilled in us. Amen.