We are a new creation not only at “a point in time”, but also as “a process over time”. Each time we yield to God, we are never the same - we are a new creation. For we are not the same today as we were yesterday. Each time we are touched by God, we are never the same, being forever changed, and are therefore a new creation, being different from the new creation we were yesterday. Just like every day of creation, God stands up a “new day”. For does the word of God not say, this is the day the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad? For each day, we are to rejoice and be glad, for a “new us” stands up that it may shine the ever brighter light of God before all of creation.

     Each day, just like a “new” sun stands up, a “new” us stands up - IF that day we are touched by God. Which all depends on if we yield to Him, to what He has planned for that day. Which like Daniel, is to come to His table for three meals a day, that we may be changed from the inside out by the fresh food we eat from His hand by sitting at the table He has prepared for us before our enemies. Which is to sit at His feet three times a day. That even if we break down each day, just as we break down life and the womb into the three trimesters of maturity, each day has three trimesters by which we may advance “from glory to glory” in the knowledge of God — breakfast, lunch and dinner — until all the rooms of the house are filled (Proverbs 24:3), precept by precept, line by line (Isaiah 28:10), until we are brought to a full-grown man, to THE measure of THE stature of the fullness of Christ, which speaks of manifested sonship and glorification (Ephesians 4:13).

     Each day gives us the opportunity to say, I may not yet be where I want to be, but I am most definitely not where I used to be. Just as our ear embraces the music throughout the entire melody that is the song, we are to embrace and find joy in each moment throughout life’s day-by-day journey towards the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. That we may eventually arrive unto a perfect man, entirely without spot or wrinkle.

     For just like God is never still and is forever busy doing a new thing in the name of love (John 5:17), following Jesus means we are not the same person we were a year ago. Even a month ago. Even yesterday.