Like so many other human beings in the world, I find many different ways to amuse myself when I have down-time. This is the very definition of “recreate”: to amuse oneself in some activity. Anyone who’s been reading this blog for awhile knows that my primary recreational activity is golf. So when I read the “Daily Post” word of the day, from which I get my springboard for writing, naturally I was confused about which word I was supposed to write about. Recreate or re-create?
To re-create means “to create again,” which may indeed be a recreational activity for artists and such, but the two words do not mean the same thing. You can see my dilemma, right?
I really like the picture above, and the implications of new life coming out of old dead things, in this case a tree stump. The vivid green plant life juxtaposed against the cracked, old dead wood, was a great creative idea by the photographer. I wonder if as he shot this graphic whether he was amused with the activity. I did it again didn’t I? I re-created the dilemma.
David captured the idea of being re-created from the inside out, in response to his own sinfulness, which was killing his spirit on the inside.
Psalm 51:10
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.
David’s desire was for God to re-create, not recreate. David saw it as his only option to sustain a purpose for his own existence.
Paul captures the same idea for the church in Corinth, and for us today.
2 Corinthians 5:17
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.
When a person steps over the line of faith into Jesus, then God does what only HE can. He re-creates us once again in His image, placing inside of us His own Holy Spirit, which results in a complete metamorphosis in our existence. We are still human, but now we are saved, redeemed, and delivered from darkness – people. We are His children.
We are re-created.
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