Wednesday Feb 18

Father, I've made leaders into either heroes or villains, expecting them to be saviors or condemning them as failures. I've put people on pedestals they never asked to be on, then been devastated when they fell. I've trusted leaders to fix what only you can fix, giving them authority over

You are a new creation in Christ - not will be someday, not trying to become, but already are. The old has gone; the new has come. You're not working toward newness; you're learning to live into the newness that's already yours. Stop trying to become what you already are. Just be who I've

Paul wrote: "I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me" (Galatians 2:20). Not "I'm trying to crucify the old self" or "I hope someday the old self dies" - it already happened. Past tense. Accomplished fact. Your old self was crucified with Christ. You a