Do you see it? There! Just beneath the surface... The tiniest of cracks in the veneer. Guilt, shame, fear, doubt all heaving against the perfection in a raging cacophony of self-loathing transfixing her frozen, motionless. Too terrified the ugliness will escape; poured out for all to see.
Arise and be set free. Stop fortifying your prison bars. Instead, fortify your soul with the only One who can release you from your chains, provide you with rebirth, and give you a new name in the book of life. Let Him fill you today with His joy for anyone in Christ is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come! (2 Corinthians 5:17)
Arise and be set free. Stop fortifying your prison bars. Instead, fortify your soul with the only One who can release you from your chains, provide you with rebirth, and give you a new name in the book of life. Let Him fill you today with His joy for anyone in Christ is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come! (2 Corinthians 5:17)
Examine how the Message Bible interprets the 2 Corinthians Scripture:
"Because of this decision we don’t evaluate people by what they have or how they look. We looked at the Messiah that way once and got it all wrong, as you know. We certainly don’t look at him that way anymore. Now we look inside, and what we see is that anyone united with the Messiah gets a fresh start, is created new. The old life is gone; a new life burgeons! Look at it! All this comes from the God who settled the relationship between us and him, and then called us to settle our relationships with each other. God put the world square with himself through the Messiah, giving the world a fresh start by offering forgiveness of sins. God has given us the task of telling everyone what he is doing. We’re Christ’s representatives. God uses us to persuade men and women to drop their differences and enter into God’s work of making things right between them. We’re speaking for Christ himself now: Become friends with God; he’s already a friend with you."
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