Mudança de vida
A mudança de vida é possível em Cristo. Não importa o passado, qual foi o erro ou quão fundo a queda — Deus renova, restaura e transforma completamente aquele que se volta para Ele.
Nova vida em Cristo
Se alguém está em Cristo, nova criação é. Deus nos dá coração novo, mente renovada e esperança para o futuro.
Therefore if any new creature is in Christ, the old things be passed. Lo! all things be made new,
God, make thou a clean heart in me; and make thou new a rightful spirit in my entrails.
Cast thou me not away from thy face; and take thou not away from me thine holy spirit.
Give thou to me the gladness of thine health; and confirm thou me with the principal spirit.
Therefore, brethren, I beseech you by the mercy of God, that ye give your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing to God, and your service reasonable.
And do not ye be conformed to this world, but be ye reformed in newness of your wit, that ye prove which is the will of God, good, and well pleasing, and perfect.
and I am fixed to the cross, that I live to God with Christ. And now live not I, but Christ liveth in me. But that I live now in flesh, I live in the faith of God’s Son, that loved me, and gave himself for me. [with Christ I am fixed to the cross. Forsooth I live now, not I, but Christ liveth in me. Forsooth that I live now in flesh, I live in the faith of God’s son, the which loved me, and betook himself for me.]
Passos para a transformação
A mudança começa com confissão, fé e decisão. Deus é fiel para perdoar e completar a boa obra que começou em nós.
If we acknowledge our sins, he is faithful and just, that he forgive to us our sins, and cleanse us from all wickedness.
For I know the thoughts which I think on you, saith the Lord, the thoughts of peace, and not of torment, that I give to you an end and patience.
Be ye nothing busy, but in all prayer and beseeching, with doing of thankings, be your askings known at God.
And the peace of God, that passeth all wit, keep your hearts and understandings in Christ Jesus.
Busily keep [or Take care] to give thyself a proved, praiseable workman to God, without shame, rightly treating the word of truth.
Coragem para mudar
Não temas, porque Deus está contigo. Ele nos fortalece para sermos sal da terra e nos dá palavras que edificam e transformam.
Do ye manly, and be ye comforted; do not ye dread in heart, neither dread ye at the sight of them, for thy Lord God himself is thy leader, and he shall not leave thee, neither forsake thee.
Ye be salt of the earth; that if the salt vanish away, wherein shall it be salted? To nothing it is worth over, but that it be cast out, and be defouled of men.
Each evil word go not out of your mouth; but if any is good to the edification of faith, that it give grace to men that hear.
For which thing we fail not, for though our outer man be corrupted; nevertheless the inner man is renewed from day to day.
But that light, [or easy], thing of our tribulation that lasteth now, but as it were by a moment, worketh in us over-measure an everlasting burden [or an everlasting weight] into the highness of glory;
while that we behold not those things that be seen, but those [things] that be not seen. For those things that be seen, be but during for a short time [or temporal]; but those things that be not seen, be everlasting [or eternal].