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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Dr Krish Kandiah

Good Morning.

The first time I saw the brand-new carpet in my daughter’s bedroom I smiled. It hid the floorboards I had once tried to sand. The floorboards that amplified every stomped foot and dropped make-up jar. The floorboards that swallowed her sewing needles in the cracks. This new carpet opened up a new chapter for me and her.

The next time I saw the new carpet I felt worried. I began to count the potential problems: a stray kohl eyeliner, a fountain pen rolling off her desk, dirty shoes, the sewing machine oil, her beloved chocolate. I frowned, reconciling myself with the realisation that this new chapter would not be new for long.

The Bible talks about faith in Christ as a new chapter in our relationship with God, but this transformation goes far beyond any other we could experience.

If anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them.

Décor, diets or dresses: new things quickly become old. But God not only creates the new but does away with old altogether. He not only reconciles - restores – us but gets us into the restoration business ourselves.

I wish I could tell you I wasn’t counting the marks on my daughter’s new carpet. But at least they remind me that God still sees me as brand new and will never count how often I mess up.

Dear Lord, thank you that you really can transform us and make us perfectly new.

Thank you Jesus for making this possible by dying for our sins.

Amen

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