Worthy Brief - 11/26/2025
Friend, the new creation: identity beyond the old self!
Colossians 3:1-3 If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. 2 Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. 3 For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
One of the most powerful truths of the gospel is this: when you came to Yeshua (Jesus), God didn’t upgrade your old life — He ended it. Salvation is not renovation; it is resurrection. Your old identity didn’t get repaired — it got crucified. Scripture declares, “If anyone is in Messiah, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new” (2 Corinthians 5:17).
This is not a metaphor — it is heaven’s legal record of your life. The day you believed, the old you died. Your past was buried with Messiah, and your new identity was raised with Him. “For you died, and your life is hidden with Messiah in God” (Colossians 3:3). You didn’t just receive forgiveness — you received a completely new nature, born from resurrection life, not from your past story.
Your heavenly identity is no longer tied to old wounds, old patterns, old labels, or old failures. Those belonged to a version of you that no longer exists. The enemy can only whisper to the corpse of your old self — but heaven speaks to the new creation you have become. The accuser calls from the grave; the Spirit calls from the empty tomb.
To walk as a new creation is to stop digging up what God buried. You cannot carry grave clothes while trying to live in resurrection life. The renewed mind doesn’t try to fix the old man — it awakens to the new one. “It is no longer I who live, but Messiah lives in me” (Galatians 2:20). Your identity is now found in His life, His Spirit, His power, His righteousness. Heaven sees Christ in you — and sees you in Christ.
You are not a sinner trying to be righteous — you are the righteousness of God learning how to walk. You are not a prisoner trying to escape — you are the free learning how to live free. You are not an orphan searching for home — you are a son or daughter discovering your inheritance. You are not the old creation striving into the new — you are the new creation shedding the memory of the old.
Your identity is not the sum of your past — it is the fruit of His resurrection. You are new because He is new. You live because He lives in you. You are whole because He has restored you. Heaven does not see you as improving — heaven sees you as reborn.
Friend, stop wrestling with a ghost — the old you is gone. Step out of the graveyard of who you once were and into the resurrection life you have been made new to walk in. Let the Spirit renew your mind until every thought, every word, and every step flows from the truth of who you are in Him. So rise and walk in resurrection life — alive with His power, clothed in His righteousness, and radiant with His image. The old has passed away, the new has come, and heaven rejoices over the new creation you have become in Him.
Your family in the Lord with much agape love,
George (Baltimore) & Baht Rivka (Arad, Israel)
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