New Life

It's 11:15 on Friday night!  AAAHH!  It's Friday night!  I haven't blogged yet!  I will just give you a quick summary of today:  I woke up late because I had a two hour delay, gave blood for the first time, went to a family fun night, and I have another college visit scheduled for tomorrow

 The two hour delay was fantastic, because I had stayed up late last night studying for a Chemistry test.  The Family Fun Night was a blast, I played a little bit of volleyball and swam in the school's pool for a good amount of time.  I'm most definitely looking forward to the college visit to Indiana Wesleyan University.

Giving blood was a good experience, which I would highly recommend you do.  It's an easy, free way to help people.  In giving blood you give life to another, just as Jesus gave you new life through His blood.  He died for you, and in the spilling of His blood, it gave you the ability to have a new life!

I answered, "Sir, you know." And he said, "These are they who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. 

Revelation 7:14

Christ has given you new life through his blood.  You have been washed clean.  You're a new creation!

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!

2 Corinthians 5:17

Don't let your old habits bog you down.  Don't hold on to them.  Give them up, so that the whole world can see that there is something different.  I've heard this illustrated in many different ways a couple of them are:

1.  Bugs: Some insects go through partial transformation while others go through complete transformation (metamorphosis?).  A cockroach goes through partial transformation, while a butterfly goes through complete transformation.  You want to be like a butterfly, going through complete transformation, not like a cockroach, only partly transforming.

2.  Vines:  Picture Tarzan swing through the jungle by grasping different vines.  Picture him trying to do this if he didn't let go of the previous one.  If you don't let go of the old vine, you can't go anywhere.  You're stuck.  You just hang there, no super obnoxious yells, and no hair flying in the wind.  You won't go anywhere if you don't let go of the old vines and trust in the new. 

It's now 11:30, and this blog doesn't flow as well as it should, but it's still Friday!