Our New Nature in Christ
Patricia Rybon Our Daily Bread Ministries https://odb.org/ All rights reserved-Published with permission Our New Nature in Christ Put on your new nature, created to be like God. Ephesians 4:24 nlt READ Ephesians 4:17-28 LISTEN ONLINE Our blue spruce was dropping pinecones and needles. The tree doctor took one look at it and explained the problem. “It’s just being a spruce,” he said. I’d hoped for a better explanation. Or a remedy. But the tree man shrugged, saying again, “It’s just being a spruce.” By nature, the tree sheds needles. It can’t change. Thankfully, our spiritual lives aren’t limited by unchangeable actions or attitudes. Paul stressed this liberating truth to the new believers at Ephesus. The gentiles were “darkened in their understanding,” he said, their minds closed to God. They possessed hardened hearts containing “every kind of impurity,” and sought only after pleasures and greed (Ephesians 4:18-19). But “since you have heard about Jesus” and His truth, the apostle w