All Things New:

            Renewed day-by-day:

2 Corinthians 4:16

16 Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day.

            Someone once said that as soon as we’re born, we start dying. Whether or not we accept that as true, there is a point where we all do start “decaying”. That doesn’t mean that our flesh will fall off while we’re still alive. Our physical body does start to go downhill. We may improve on it, but it will never truly go back to where it was in the past. We may just delay the final conclusion. People today are so concerned about there outward appearance. They spend a lot of money to make it appear better and not as old looking. Notice I said appear. It’s not really better or younger. It may be better and younger looking than it really is, but it’s still the same age. A fifty year old dead person who looks thirty-something is no better off than one that looks sixty-something. They are both dead.

            We should be concentrating on our inner man. He is the one who needs to reign supreme. He is being renewed by the Holy Spirit every day. Every day he gets better. We need to feed that inner man daily on God’s Word and prayer. That will help him be renewed. He is destined to be renewed, but the process will be easier on us if we cooperate with God’s Spirit. Our inner man will look more and more like Jesus every day. Soon others won’t be able to tell the difference between us.

If you could hear God speak to you, I believe this is what He would say:

            "Your trust is not in the things of the world, nor the things of the flesh. The flesh will die and the world will pass away. But if your trust is in Me, you will never fail and will never have anything to fear. I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. You have everything that you could possibly ever need in Me. Trust in Me, not in the flesh. The flesh will end, but I will endure forever.”

            62. No matter how my outer man looks to the world, my inner man is looking more and more like Jesus every day.