A Few Thoughts on the Old Man...

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation;
the old has gone, the new has come! II Corinthians 5:17

If the "old man" inside me is dead, then why do I continue to cook for him, wash his clothes, make his bed and provide for him in every which way? It is as if the ghost of my former self haunts me until I confuse the existence of this specter with reality.

Lord, help me instead to willfully pound the nails into his coffin, inscribe the gravestone with a definitive end date and walk away with no need for commemoratives. Help me to see that true life, true happiness and true power comes not from fraternizing with ghosts but from the living reality of the new man in You!

For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin because anyone who has died has been freed from sin. Romans 6:6-7